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Book

Bronzeville nights : on the town in Chicago's Black metropolis

Call Number

  • 779 S5926D (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

[Chicago, IL] : Cityfiles Press, [2021]

Physical Description

80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Summary

Step inside a bygone era: ladies in strapless gowns, smartly draped in furs; accompanied by men with pencil moustaches who are dressed to the nines. On Chicago's South Side in the 1940s and '50s, in the African-American enclave known as Bronzeville, such tableaux were commonplace. And Samuel "Lonnie" Simmons, a jazz musician and photographer, left behind a collection of more than eight hundred photographs now seen by the broad public for the first time. His images record a time and place that was systematically destroyed more than half a century ago. Dubin puts the photographs-- and the life of the photographer-- in context. -- adapted from pages 13-28.

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