Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life

As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty sh…

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