{"product_id":"9781883982454","title":"Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfrican Americans have been part of the story of St. Louis since the city’s founding in 1764. Unfortunately, most histories of the city have overlooked or ignored their vital role, allowing their influence and accomplishments to go unrecorded or uncollected; that is, until the publication of \u003ci\u003eDiscovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites\u003c\/i\u003e in 1994.\u003cbr\u003eA new and updated 2002 edition is now available to take readers on a fascinating tour of nearly four hundred African American landmarks. From the boyhood home of jazz great Miles Davis in East St. Louis, Illinois, to the site of the house that sparked the landmark \u003ci\u003eShelley v. Kraemer\u003c\/i\u003e court case, the maps, photographs, and text of \u003ci\u003eDiscovering African American St. Louis\u003c\/i\u003e record a history that has been neglected for too long.\u003cbr\u003eThe guidebook covers fourteen regions east and west of the Mississippi that represent St. Louis’s rich African American heritage. In the words of historian Gary Kremer, “No one who reads this book and visits and contemplates the places and peoples whose stories it recounts will be able to look at St. Louis in the same way ever again.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Missouri History Museum Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043572498672,"sku":"9781883982454","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781883982454_p0.jpg?v=1763604747","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781883982454","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}