"Ain't But a Place" makes ideal reading for the student of African American culture, as well as anyone interested in the formative experiences of some of this regions most influential individuals. This rich collection spans a variety of genres to include the words of such notables as freed slaves and abolitionists William Wells Brown and Lucy Delaney, sports greats Bob Gibson, Henry Armstrong, and Jackie Joyner Kersee entertainers Dick Gregory, Miles Davis, Chuck Berry, and Tina Turner and writers Eddy Harris, Ntozake Shange, Quincy Troupe, and Eugene Redmond. "Ain't But a Place" captures voices that comprise the African American experience in St. Louis region has remained prominent in the expressions. Louis "to engage their muse and quarrel with American culture from another location," the experience gained from the St. Louis, and the source of a good deal of that energy is its African American citizenry." Although the majority of writers and entertainers left St. The historian Scott Reynolds Nelsons 'Ain’t Nothing but a Man' documents his search for the real John Henry the steel-drivin’ man of so much song and story. Louis, "An impressive amount of artistic energy is generated in St. Gerald Early writes in the introduction to "Ain't But a Place": An Anthology of African American Writings about St.
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