Reed, C: The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929

Received a Superior Achievement Award from the Illinois State Historical Society, 2012.

"Should be rightfully added to the new historiography of black Chicago."--The Journal of American History

"A readable and important work in African American and U.S. urban history."--Indiana Magazine of History

"An important contribution to the field of African American urban history and the history of black Chicago in particular. Among other things, Christopher Robert Reed persuasively cites the need for a reappraisal of Cayton and Drake's classic depiction of Chicago's 'Black Metropolis' by illuminating the role of professionals and political and religious organizations."--Robert E. Weems Jr., author of Black Business in the Black Metropolis: The Chicago Metropolitan Assurance Company, 1925-1985 "Presents a full and integrated picture of a dynamic and young community."--Journal of Illinois History "The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929 is well organized, cogently written, and substantially documented. This thoroughly enjoyable work will be of interest not just to Chicagoans, but to scholars of urban studies, black entrepreneurship, and black politics."--Robert L. Harris Jr., coeditor of The Columbia Guide to African-American History Since 1939