![]() ![]() Randall shows us a warm, thriving, tightly woven community of “breadwinners,” or auto industry workers who fled the Jim Crow South and became patrons of Detroit’s glittery club scene. ![]() From his deathbed, Ziggy recalls friendships with some of the city’s most notable characters, some well known and some not.īlack Bottom Saints is an intriguing and beguiling look at the storied city at the height of its pomp. ![]() Characters are revealed through the eyes of real-life emcee, theater director, newspaper columnist and dapper man about town Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson (1913–1968). Alice Randall’s latest novel is a genre-bending series of profiles of the dazzling residents of Black Bottom, the commercial and residential heart of Detroit’s Black community in the era spanning from the Great Depression to the early 1960s. ![]()
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