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A rent party (sometimes called a house party) is a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent, originating in Harlem during the 1920s. These parties were a means for Black tenants to eat, dance, and get away from everyday hardship and discrimination.
The 1918–1920 New York City rent strikes were some of the most significant tenant mobilizations against landlords in New York City history. [2] A housing shortage caused by World War I had exacerbated tenant conditions, with the construction industry being redirected to support the war effort.
[10] [4] Tenants were organized in Italian as well as Jewish neighborhoods. [10] Organized by the party, the tenants hung effigies of their landlords and hung red flags, often dyed petticoats, from their windows. [4] [5] Due to the strike's association with the Socialist Party, it was considered a leftist activity by much of the New York City ...
Jesse Gray was born on May 14, 1923, [1] near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.He came to New York City and was a tailor and a member of the National Maritime Union in the 1940s. [2]He organized protests of tenants against conditions in Harlem's slum areas in the 1950s.
In addition to the unrest in Harlem and the Bronx, new violence hit other parts of the city as looting and vandalism erupted in Midtown during the night of July 26 and 27. [16] At 11:30 PM on July 26, officers at a station on 51st Street reported that a crowd that was disorderly consisting of 100-150 youths leaving Central Park from a Rheingold ...
In 1995 a black Pentecostal Church, the United House of Prayer, which owned a retail property on 125th Street across from the Apollo Theatre, asked Fred Harari [source?], a Jewish tenant who operated Freddie's Fashion Mart, to evict his longtime subtenant, a record store called The Record Shack owned by black South African Sikhulu Shange.
The Dunbar Apartments, also known as the Paul Laurence Dunbar Garden Apartments or Dunbar Garden Apartments, is a complex of buildings located on West 149th and West 150th Streets between Frederick Douglass Boulevard/Macombs Place and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
W. C. Handy – composer and bandleader; lived on Strivers' Row in Harlem towards the end of his life [34] Benny Harris – musician, trumpet [63] Lorenz Hart – lyricist [1] Johnny Hartman – vocalist; born in Louisiana, grew up in Chicago, moved to Harlem's Sugar Hill in 1950s; Evan Hunter, aka Ed McBain – author, grew up in East Harlem [64]