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Author
Publisher
Rose Metal Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, novelist Sheila O'Connor tells the riveting story of V, a talented fifteen-year-old singer in 1930s Minneapolis who aspires to be a star. Drawing on the little-known American practice of incarcerating adolescent girls for "immorality" in the first half of the twentieth century, O'Connor follows young...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sittin' in brings to public view for the first time a rare collection of more than two hundred souvenir photographs and memorabilia from the most renowned jazz nightclubs in America in the 1940s and 1950s. In an era of segreation and Jim Crow laws, jazz nghtclubs across the country were among the first paces where Black and white people mixed in audiences and onstage. These remarkable images, detailed histories of each club, and first-person testimonies...
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