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Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance

By Mark Whitaker
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By Mark Whitaker
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From the bestselling author of The Afterlife of Malcolm X comes a brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s-"Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good story...terrific, eminently readable...fascinating" (The Washington Post).

Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson's famed plays about noble, but doomed, working-class citizens. But this community o...

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HistorySocial SciencesAfrican AmericansUnited States HistoryAfrican American HistoryUnited States History - Northeastern & Middle Atlantic RegionAfrican American HistoryPennsylvania - State & Local HistoryAfrican American Regional History - Northeastern & Mid-Atlantic StatesAfrican American History - Social Aspects