Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943

by M. Stange

In the 1940s, the federal government sent a group of gifted photographers across the United States to record and publicize conditions in cities, towns, and rural areas that were the destination of an unprecedented migration. Two of these photographers, Russell Lee and Edwin Rosskam, spent time on Chicago's South Side, eventually producing over a thousand documentary images of Bronzeville's life. This remarkable coverage of a black urban community--the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565846184
• ISBN13: 9781565846180
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.3" x 8.7"