TY - SER
KW - veterans
KW - ex-convicts
KW - Jones and Laughlin Steel Company
KW - taxicab drivers
KW - Black Americans
AU - August Wilson
AB - As Pittsburgh taxis do not serve the Hill District, a group of black men in 1977 hustle as jitneys—unlicensed cab drivers—and pass the time by telling stories.
C1 - 1977
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Hill District; Homewood; East Liberty; North Side; Allegheny Center; Buhl Planetarium; Marshall-Shadeland; Western Penitentiary (1882); Downtown; William Penn Hotel; Penn Hills
C4 - Literary; Black; Slum; Psychological
CY - Woodstock, NY
LA - English
M3 - Playscript
N2 - As Pittsburgh taxis do not serve the Hill District, a group of black men in 1977 hustle as jitneys—unlicensed cab drivers—and pass the time by telling stories.
PB - Overlook Press
PP - Woodstock, NY
PY - 2001
RN - August Wilson (1945-2005), born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. He died in Seattle and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in O’Hara Twp., Allegheny County.
EP - 96 p.
TI - Jitney!
ER -