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Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1st Edition) by St. Clair Drake, Horace Roscoe Cayton, Richard Wright (Introduction), William Julius Wilson (Foreword), Saint C. Drake, Richard Nathaniel Wright, Horace A. Cayton Paperback, 910 Pages, Published 1993 ISBN-10: 0-226-16234-6 / 0226162346 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16234-8 / 9780226162348 "The facts of urban life presented here are in their starkest form," Richard Wright wrote in the original foreword to this penetrating study of Chicago's South Side, first published in 1945. "To have them presented otherwise would have been to negate the humanity of the American Negro." Nearly 50 ye |