Smoketown

A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s—“ Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good story…terrific, eminently readable…fascinating” ( The Washington Post ). Today black Pittsburgh is known as the setting for August Wilson’s famed plays about noble, but doomed, working-class citizens. But this community once had an impact on American history that rivaled the far larger blac