african american neighborhoods

With the help of three ex-cons trying to forge a new life, Lester begins to clean out the rubble of Harlem and rebuild the city as a shining icon for African-Americans.

Paints a portrait of the African-American experience in the changing decade of the 1960s through the lives of restaurant owner Memphis Lee and the people who live in his Pittsburgh block, which is scheduled for demolition.

A play by August Wilson that captures the experiences of African-Americans in the 1970s.

In the African American community of East Liberty, Chris "Crest" Tolbert, left paralyzed following a recent accident, struggles to come to terms with the implications of his injuries and with the loss of his best friend in the same accident.

Explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between the African-American residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma and the neighboring white population in 1921 and recounts the events leading up to and including the destruction of the African-American community by a white mob.

The last of August Wilson's ten-play chronicle of the African-American experience, in which Aunt Ester's former home in Pittsburgh is slated for demolition in 1990 to make way for a real estate venture designed to revitalize the area, and Harmond Wilks makes a run for mayor.

A play by August Wilson in which Aunt Ester, the 285-year-old matriarch of a African-American family, helps two young men start their lives over in 1904.

Contains a collection of color photographs in which Alice Attie documents the people, art, and buildings of Harlem, capturing the traditionally African-American neighborhood at a time of transition from a working-class center of cultural pride to a more gentrified, sanitized community.