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Willie "The Lion" Smith was house pianist during the Prohibition era. Pod's and Jerry's, officially the Catagonia Club, [1] was a cabaret and jazz club on 133rd Street in Harlem, New York City. It was one of the thriving speakeasies during the Prohibition era when the street was known as "Swing Street". It was established in 1925 by Charles ...
Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) [1] was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, a well-known gay speakeasy in New York in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer.
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1]
Pop culture critic Miles Marshall Lewis explores the throughline from the Harlem Renaissance to hip-hop in The Met’s new exhibition. […] The post The Met’s ‘The Harlem Renaissance and ...
Harlem producer Leonard Harper directed the first two of three opening night floor-shows at the new venue. Cotton Club dancer Mildred Dixon – Duke Ellington's second companion The Cotton Club was a whites-only establishment with rare exceptions for black celebrities such as Ethel Waters and Bill Robinson. [ 7 ]
1920s: Alcohol Prohibition & Organized Crime. America's Temperance Movement achieved its primary goal Jan. 16, 1920, when the 18th Amendment's ban on making and selling intoxicating liquors took ...
A Universal Negro Improvement Association parade in Harlem, 1920. A sign on a car says "The New Negro Has No Fear". "New Negro" is a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation.
From the clubs of Harlem to the cabarets of Paris, the music of the Harlem Renaissance had global appeal. This Miami Beach music festival shows how the Harlem Renaissance took Europe by storm Skip ...