Jazz Age Chicago--Bookstore

Online since 1997

Home » Jazz Age Chicago Bookstore » African Americans

Jazz Age Chicago Bookstore

In association with Amazon.com. (How does this work?)

African Americans

The Negro in Chicago: a Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot in 1919
Chicago Commission on Race Relations (Arno Press, 1978)

Black Chicago's First Century, 1833-1900
Christopher Robert Reed (Univ. of Missouri Press, 2005)

Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952
Wallace D. Best (Princeton Univ. Press, 2005)

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in the City
St. Clair Drake (Univ. of Chicago Press, rev. ed., 1993)

Black Power, White Control: The Struggle of the Woodlawn Organization in Chicago
John Hall Fish (Princeton Univ. Press, 1973)

Bitter Fruit: Black Politics and the Chicago Machine, 1931-1991
William J. Grimshaw (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1995)

Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
James R. Grossman (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991)

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
Arnold R. Hirsch (Univ. of Chicago Press, reprint ed., 1998)

Toward a Tenderer Humanity and a Nobler Womanhood : African-American Women's Clubs in Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago
Anne Meis Knupfer (New York Univ. Press, 1996)

The Promised Land: the Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
Nicholas Lemann (Vintage Books, 1992)

Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46
Bill V. Mullen (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1999)

The Slum and the Ghetto: Immigrants, Blacks, and Reformers in Chicago, 1880-1930
Thomas L. Philpott (Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2nd ed., 1991)

The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966
Christopher Robert Reed (Indiana Univ. Press, 1997)

Black Chicago: the Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920
Allan H. Spear (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1969)

Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919
William M. Tuttle (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997)

Other Bookstore Sections:

· General Chicago History
· Notable Events
· Politics & Mayors
· Neighborhoods
· Schools & Institutions
· Immigrants & Ethnic Communities
· African Americans
· Labor & Industry

· Gender & Sexuality
· Popular Culture
· Sports & Recreation
· World's Fairs
· Architecture
· Travel Books
· Documentary Videos
· Movies set in Jazz Age Chicago

Page authored: 15 July 2005

Site Menu

Home
Introduction
Bright-Light Districts
Leisure Venues
Notable Events
Research Links
Bookstore

Table of Contents
About this Site
Copyrights/Citations

Newest Entries

Century of Progress
Lord's
The Hub
Lakeside Theater
Uptown Hotels
"Voice of the Movie Fan"

Updated Entries

Pantheon Theater
The Fair
Mandel Brothers

New Books

· Davarian L. Baldwin, Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2007)

· Georg Leidenberger, Chicago's Progressive Alliance: Labor And the Bid for Public Streetcars (Northern Illinois Univ. Press, 2006)

· Jeffery S. Adler, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 (Harvard Univ. Press, 2006)

· Suellen Hoy, Good Hearts: Catholic Sisters in Chicago's Past (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006)

· Ann Durkin Keating, Chicagoland: City and Suburbs in the Railroad Age (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005)

· Timothy B. Spears, Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871-1919 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2005)

· James R. Grossman, ed., The Encyclopedia of Chicago (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004)