"The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their 'Thing Finder box,' and hiding under the dining room

With the migration of African American sharecroppers to northern cities in the first half of the 20th century, the African American population of Milwaukee grew

A dazzling and surprising visual visit to Bronzeville, Chicago's vibrant African-American community, during the segregated 1940s and 1950s.

Newly annotated with everything from slang to Chicagoans--famous and obscure--this book is, as Studs Terkel says, "the best book about Chicago".

A dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history from the early 1930s to the cold war, and the first comprehensive critical stud