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The blues walked in / Kathleen George.

In 1936, life on the road means sleeping on the bus or in hotels for blacks only. After finishing her tour with Nobel Sissel's orchestra, nineteen-year-old Lena Horne is walking the last few blocks to her father's hotel in Pittsburgh's Hill District. She stops at a lemonade stand and...

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Main Author: George, Kathleen, 1943- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Horne, Lena > Childhood and youth > Fiction.
Singers > Fiction.
Young women > Fiction.
African Americans > Fiction.
Lebanese Americans > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Racism > Fiction.
Pittsburgh (Pa.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Horne, Lena.
African Americans.
Female friendship.
Lebanese Americans.
Manners and customs.
Racism.
Singers.
Young women.
Pennsylvania > Pittsburgh.
Bildungsromans.
Biographical fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.

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Call Number: PS3557.E487 B58 2018eb
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