Description: South Side Venus is the first biography of legendary Chicago artist and writer Margaret T. Burroughs, cofounder of the South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) and the DuSable Museum of African American History.
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"Without question, this is the most serious, scholarly biography of Margaret Burroughs to date; successfully narrating the prescient details of her long life. It will appeal not only to scholars interested in particular cultural and intellectual moments in Black Chicago history, but to general readers interested in African American history, the city of Chicago, and its cultural institutions." --Bill V. Mullen, author of Popular Fronts: Chicago and African-American Cultural Politics, 1935-46