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Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites

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African Americans have been a part of the story of St. Louis since the city’s founding in 1764. Unfortunately, most histories of the city have overpassed or ignored their vital role, allowing their influence and accomplishments to go unrecorded or uncollected; that may be, until the publication of Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites in 1994.
A new and up to date 2002 edition is now to be had to take readers on an enchanting tour of nearly four hundred African American landmarks. From the boyhood home of jazz great Miles Davis in East St. Louis, Illinois, to the site of the house that sparked the landmark Shelley v. Kraemer court case, the maps, photographs, and text of Discovering African American St. Louis record a history that has been neglected for too long.
The guidebook covers fourteen regions east and west of the Mississippi that represent St. Louis’s wealthy African American heritage. In the words of historian Gary Kremer, “Nobody who reads this book and visits and contemplates the places and peoples whose stories it recounts will have the ability to take a look at St. Louis in the same way ever again.”

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