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Drake and Cayton’s Black Metropolis

St. Clair Drake (1911-1990) and Horace R. Cayton, Jr. (1903-1970) will forever be bound together for their collaboration on the groundbreaking Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945).  Drake was born in Suffolk, Virginia, graduated … Continue reading

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