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Try these links for information on the neighborhood around St. James.
St James Catholic Church
Bronzeville Landmark District
Bronzeville Neighborhood Page
Gospel Music and Bronzeville
The naming of Bronzeville
Bronzeville Historical SocietyBronzeville Stories
The city name for the area is DOUGLAS
Douglas/Grand Boulevard
Go to Chicago Prospector and go to the neighborhood analysis option (upper right side of page), select Douglas from the Community: drop-down list (middle right side of page), click the Search button, select the Report type you want, and click the Calculate button. Be WARNED, this is ADDICTIVE!! It is real-estate driven, but there is lots of good, fairly current info. e.g., you won't believe the percentage of households with 1 resident.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Chicago Public Library bibliography
Bridges of Memory : Chicago's First Wave of Black Migration
Timuel D. Black
February 2005
Northwestern
7 x 10, 616 pp. Trade Paper
ISBN 0-8101-2315-0
Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943
Richard Wright, Russell Lee, Edwin Rosskam, Maren Stange
04/01/2004
New Press
8.5 x 10.02 x 0.73, 288 pp
ISBN: 1565849000
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Live in a Northern City
Drake, St. Clair and Horace R Cayton
Various editions since 1945
Harper & Row, N, Y.
Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920
Spear, Allan
1967
University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226768570
An Autobiogrpahy of Black Chicago
Travis, Dempsey
1981
Urban Research Press
378 pp
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