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An exploration of women's experiences and the impact of their activities on the history and landscape of St Louis. Beginning with the colonial period and ending in the 1960s, each chapter identifies the experiences of women in a specific time period and sites of their public activities.

This collection of a dozen essays examines Miles Davis in a cultural context. It explores the St. Louis jazz scene of his youth and East St. Louis's cultural history, it examines Davis and civil rights, and discusses Davis and his relation to the black avant-garde of the 1960s.