The 1929 sociology classic Middletown: A Study of a Modern American Culture , still in print today, left something out the entire African-American population of its "typical" city of Muncie, Indiana.
Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the famous study by Lynd and Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, the authors uncover the neglected part of the story o