Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

$108.00

Author: Drake, St Clair & Cayton, Horace R.
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace
Place: New York
Cover: hardback in original cloth
Condition: Nice copy
Category: History- America
Year: 1945
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo.
Description: xxxiv + 809pp., diags., index, First edition of Drake and Cayton’s study of African American society in Chicago, the city then having the second largest African American population in the country. An important sociological survey – Chicago was a major target for the Great Northward Migration in the first half of the century, as African Americans left the segregated south