Bronzeville Nights
On the Town in Chicago's Black Metropolis
[Chicago, IL] : Cityfiles Press, [2021], ©2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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.
Subjects:
Simmons, Lonnie.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) -- History.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century.
Simmons, Lonnie.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) -- History.
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781733869027
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US Dub | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79).