I, Stagolee
1st Edition
Published on 29. July 2014
186 pages
978-1-58394-392-2 (ISBN)
Description
It's the birth year of Ragtime music, 1895, and Lee "Stagolee" Shelton, a St. Louis pimp, murders Billy Lyons, a political gang member. Afterwards, Stagolee makes a deal with Judge Murphy to bring order to the underworld. As a member of a group of pimps called the "Stags," Stagolee makes alliances with the Democratic Party and votes for a Democratic Mayor. Later, the Stag Party, along with the Democratic Party, elects St. Louis's first black policeman. It is this policeman who is sent to arrest Stagolee for the murder of Billy Lyons. Now, nearly 50 years after singer Lloyd Price introduced mainstream audiences to the "Stagger Lee" story, Cecil Brown portrays the events that gave rise to this mainstay of African-American popular culture. This follows the successful Stagolee Shot Billy, Brown's nonfiction account of the same story.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Windows
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2,27 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-58394-392-2 (9781583943922)
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Person
Cecil Brown, novelist, screenwriter, and scholar, was educated at Columbia University (B.A.), University of Chicago (M.A.), and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.). His other published work includes The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger, Days Without Weather, Coming Up Down Home, and Stagolee Shot Billy. Cecil Brown has been awarded a W.E. Dubois Fellowship from Harvard University. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara, specializing in African-American folklore, oral narrative, and literature. In the spring of 2006, he initiated a new class, "Richard Pryor, Humor, and American Society."
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part One
- Chapter One: Union Station St. Louis Railroad, 1895
- Chapter Two: Deep Morgan Slum, Later That Night
- Chapter Three: Incident at Bridgewater's Saloon
- Chapter Four: Christmas Night, Modern Horseshoe Saloon, 1895
- Chapter Five: The Stetson
- Chapter Six: Run, Man, Run
- Chapter Seven: Where Can I Hide?
- Chapter Eight: Winning a Prize
- Chapter Nine: Moment of Reckoning
- Chapter Ten: Escape, If You Can
- Chapter Eleven: Memory of the Stagolee Riverboat
- Chapter Twelve: Visitors in Jail, But No Bail
- Chapter Thirteen: I Meet My Lawyer, Nathaniel Dryden
- Chapter Fourteen: The Inquest
- Chapter Fifteen: New Year's Eve
- Part Two
- Chapter Sixteen: Free Again
- Chapter Seventeen: A Meeting at the Modern Horseshoe Saloon
- Chapter Eighteen: Night Work
- Chapter Nineteen: A Trip to Deep Morgan
- Chapter Twenty: Daughters and Father
- Chapter Twenty-one: The First Day of My First Trial
- Chapter Twenty-two: The Verdict
- Chapter Twenty-three: The Race Riot and Streetcar Riots, Summer 1896
- Chapter Twenty-four: The Republican Convention, Summer 1896, St. Louis
- Chapter Twenty-five: The Rosebud Café, St. Louis, immediately after the Convention
- Chapter Twenty-six: A Meeting with the Democrats
- Chapter Twenty-seven: Catching the Boodlers Red-Handed
- Chapter Twenty-eight: Bordello Tragedy
- Chapter Twenty-nine: An Interview with Richard Blair
- Chapter Thirty: Dressing a Dead Man
- Chapter Thirty-one: Portrait of a Pimp
- Chapter Thirty-two: The Trial and the Truth
- Epilogue: Meet Me in St. Louis
- About the Author
