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Author Randall, Alice, 1959-

Title Black Bottom saints : a novel / Alice Randall.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
©2020
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2030126~S1
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 95th Street Adult Fiction  F RANDALL    AVAILABLE
 Nichols Adult Fiction  F RANDALL    AVAILABLE
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Description 361 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson, has been the pulse of Detroit's famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city's African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he is also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he's rubbed elbows with the legendary black artists of the era, including Ethel Waters, Billy Eckstein, and Count Basie. Ziggy is also the founder and dean of the Ziggy Johnson School of Theater. But now the doyen of Black Bottom is ready to hang up his many dapper hats. As he lays dying in the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Ziggy reflects on his life, the community that was the center of his world, and the remarkable people who helped shape it."--Amazon.
Subject African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- Fiction.
African American celebrities -- Fiction.
African Americans in the newspaper industry -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Cultural property -- Fiction.
African American / Historical -- Fiction.
Black Bottom (Detroit, Mich.) -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9780062968623 (hbk.)
0062968629 (hbk.)
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