Music:
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Movies:
Bloody Island: The Race Riots of East St. Louis and Made in USA: The Story of East St. Louis
Books:
American Pictures by Jacob Holdt, Made in USA: The Rise and Fall of an Industrial River Town by Andrew J. Theising, Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 by Elliott Rudwick, East St. Louis -- The Way It Is Today: 1990 by Ruben L. Yelvington, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools by Jonathan Kozol, Boom and Bust: A Story of East St. Louis by Marcellus Bosworth, Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel by Reginald Hudlin and Aaron McGruder, The Politics of Urban Planning: The East St. Louis Experience by Dennis Judd and Robert E. Mendelson, Katherine Dunham by James Haskins, and Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe
Heroes:
Larry Wallace, Jacob Holdt, Katherine Dunham , Jackie Joyner-Kersee, MetroLink, Miles Davis, Melvin Dean, Rex Carr, Andrew Theising, Elliott Rudwick, Ron Carter, Thomas Gibson, Reginald Hudlin, Jonathan Kozol, Ruben Yelvington, R. Buckminster Fuller, Larry Rice, and Duke Ellington.