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Pittsburgh's influential but brief role in the Black Renaissance

by Kai Ryssdal and Bridget Bodnar

Jan 30, 2018

Mark Whitaker's new book, "Smoketown," examines the sometimes overlooked role that the city played.

In the Hill District of the 1940s, Herron Avenue marked the boundary between the upper-class "Sugartop" neighborhood and the working-class "Middle Hill."

Getty Images/Teenie Harris Archive/Carnegie Museum of Art

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