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Black Bottom saints : a novel
- Title
- Black Bottom saints : a novel / Alice Randall.
- Author
- Randall, Alice, 1959-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 21-926 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- 361 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Joseph 'Ziggy' Johnson reflects on his life. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Ziggy had been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city's African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he was also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he rubbed elbows with the legendary black artists of the era. In his hospital bed, Ziggy curates his own list of Black Bottom's venerable '52 Saints', local heroes whose unstoppable ambition, love of style, and faith in community made this black Midwestern neighborhood the rival of New York City's Harlem"--
- Subject
- African Americans > Michigan > Detroit > History > Fiction
- African American celebrities > Fiction
- African Americans in the newspaper industry > Fiction
- Reminiscing in old age > Fiction
- Reminiscing in old age
- African Americans in the newspaper industry
- African Americans
- African American celebrities
- Black Bottom (Detroit, Mich.) > Fiction
- Michigan > Detroit
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-926
- ISBN
- 9780062968623
- 0062968629
- OCLC
- 1183476183
- Author
- Randall, Alice, 1959- author.
- Title
- Black Bottom saints : a novel / Alice Randall.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-926