Black Bottom saints : a novel

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The work Black Bottom saints : a novel represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Black Bottom saints : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Alice Randall

Creator

• Randall, Alice, 1959-

Author

• Randall, Alice, 1959-

Subject

• African American celebrities -- Fiction
• African Americans
• African Americans -- Fiction
• African Americans -- Michigan | Detroit -- History -- Fiction
• African Americans in the newspaper industry
• African Americans in the newspaper industry -- Fiction
• Black Bottom (Detroit, Mich.) -- Fiction
• Célébrités noires américaines -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction
• FICTION -- African American | Historical
• FICTION -- Cultural Heritage
• FICTION -- Literary
• Fiction
• Gossip columnists -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• African American artists -- Fiction
• History
• Michigan -- Detroit
• Neighborhood -- Fiction
• Night clubs, cabarets, etc -- Fiction
• Noirs américains -- Michigan | Detroit -- Histoire -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Noirs américains dans les entreprises de presse -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Novels
• Reminiscing in old age
• Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction
• Souvenir chez la personne âgée -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Historical fiction
• African American celebrities

Genre

• History
• Novels
• Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Historical fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

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"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

NjBwBT

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels