Joe Turner's come and gone

Description:

When Herald Loomis arrives at an African-American Pittsburgh boardinghouse, after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man--in body.

subjects: Drama,  Boardinghouses,  African Americans,  Nineteen tens,  African American families,  American drama (dramatic works by one author),  Nineteen nineties,  Real estate development,  African American neighborhoods,  Nineteen sixties,  Blues musicians,  Musicians,  Nineteen twenties,  Taxicab drivers,  Nineteen seventies,  Fathers and sons,  Nineteen fifties,  Siblings,  Sharecroppers,  Land tenure,  Heirlooms,  Nineteen thirties,  Brothers and sisters

Places: Pittsburgh (Pa.)