Black Chicago: A Black History of America's Heartland - Paperback

by Odie Hawkins (Author)

Chicago, the center of America's heartland, from its founding in the late 1700s by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, a French-educated black man, to the modern day Gypsies who live on Maxwell Street. It's a city steeped in Black History. This is the story of a city where a unique African American history has grown, a center for the emergence of jazz, blues, dance, art, and the DuSable Museum of African American History.

Author Biography

Odie Hawkins, a graduate of DuSable High School in Chicago, a protégé of Dr. Margaret Burroughs, is considered to be, by many, an African American Master Storyteller.