Black Metropolis: A study of Negro Life in a Northern City
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. 1st Edition. 8vo. An important Jim Crow-era look at the lives of the Black population in Chicago in the 1940s, a "monumental study of race relations and African American social structure" (Finkelman, 90). Introduction by Richard Wright, novelist and short-story writer who..... More