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Book SynopsisA stunning collection of images celebrating the remarkable career of Burnis ‘Mac’ McCloud, Denver’s premiere Black photographer between 1950 and 1980. His remarkable photographs captured the ordinary lives of African Americans during a period that witnessed the end of Jim Crow segregation and the beginning of the Civil Rights era.
Trade ReviewWilliam Wyckoff has done a splendid job of exhuming Mac McCloud and his photographs of everyday life in Denver's now fading Black neighborhood of Five Points." - Thomas J. Noel, author of
Colorado: A Historical Atlas"William Wyckoff breathes new life into a remarkable collection of images taken by Burnis 'Mac' McCloud during the middle years of the twentieth century, introducing Denver's legendary African American photographer to a new generation of admirers. More important, he uses McCloud's evocative photos of the Five Points neighborhood to transport readers to a time and to a place that today exists only in the pages of this book." - Geoffrey L. Buckley, coeditor of
The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United StatesTable of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Gallery 1. Places
Gallery 2. Work
Gallery 3. Play
Gallery 4. Fame
Further Reading
Index
