Bronzeville nights : on the town in Chicago's Black metropolis /
Dubin, Steven C.,
Bronzeville nights : on the town in Chicago's Black metropolis / Steven C. Dubin ; foreword by Margo Jefferson. - First edition. - 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79).
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.
9781733869027 $29.95 1733869026 $29.95
Simmons, Lonnie.
African Americans--History--Illinois--Chicago--20th century--Pictorial works.
Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.)--History.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century.
Bronzeville nights : on the town in Chicago's Black metropolis / Steven C. Dubin ; foreword by Margo Jefferson. - First edition. - 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79).
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.
9781733869027 $29.95 1733869026 $29.95
Simmons, Lonnie.
African Americans--History--Illinois--Chicago--20th century--Pictorial works.
Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.)--History.
Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century.