Leanita McClain
Born: 1951 in Chicago, Illinois
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: McClain was born in Chicago and grew up in the Ida B. Wells housing projects. Biography: Leanita McClain was a journalist and commentator, best known for her observations of race and politics in Chicago and the U.S. in the early 1980s. Her writings in the Chicago Tribune and in opinion pieces published in Newsweek gave broad exposure to her thoughts on race and class in the United States. Her work addressed both local topics, such as the election of Harold Washington as mayor in 1983, as well as topics of more national interest, including the challenges facing the growing black middle class. McClain suffered from depression through much of her life, and died by suicide.
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A foot in each world : ISBN: 0810107414 OCLC: 14241728 Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Ill. : 1986. |