Black Metropolis

CTL-E-0276 · Work · book · 1945

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Landmark 1945 sociological study of Black Chicago by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton.

The record

Also known as: Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, Black Metropolis (Drake & Cayton, 1945)

Relationships

Dr. St. Clair Drake — authored by
Co-authored by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton; landmark 1945 sociological study of Bronzeville.

Sources

Standard bibliographic record — Drake & Cayton, Black Metropolis (1945) (primary source)

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Children asleep in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Children at a meal, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Children playing in vacant lot in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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