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Club Harlem was founded in 1935 by Leroy "Pop" Williams on the site of a dance hall called Fitzgerald's Auditorium. [a] Williams was a medical student at University of Pennsylvania when he managed to acquire enough money to buy Fitzgerald's; he left college after becoming the owner of the nightclub. [2]
Harlem History Club was a study circle founded in Harlem in the 1930s and based at the Harlem YMCA. [1] Participants included: John Henrik Clarke [1] Willis Nathaniel Huggins [2] John G. Jackson [3] Joel A. Rogers [3] Charles Seifort [3] Richard B. Moore [3] William Leo Hansberry [3] Nnamdi Azikiwe; Kwame Nkrumah
The club in Lubbock, however, was home to more white artists than the Harlem club. [37] The Cotton Club in Portland was opened by Paul Knauls in 1963. [38] The club in Las Vegas was opened by Moe Taub in 1944. This location differed from other clubs because it was a casino. [39] Taub opened the club to black servicemen. [40]
By 1983, the club was known as the New Smalls Paradise. This version of Smalls Paradise offered everything from music and dancing to craft shows and political speeches. [63] By 1986, the club, which was the longest-operating night club in Harlem, had fallen vacant. Before its closure it had undergone a transition from a jazz to a disco club.
Since the 1920s, this period of Harlem's history has been highly romanticized. With the increase in a poor population, it was also the time when the neighborhood began to deteriorate to a slum, and some of the storied traditions of the Harlem Renaissance were driven by poverty, crime, or other social ills. For example, in this period, Harlem ...
The Plantation Club opened as a rival to the Cotton Club in December 1929 and was housed in a former Harlem dance academy. [17] It spawned much black talent, including Josephine Baker and Cab Calloway. The Club catered to white clients. A destructive attack on the club by the Cotton Club raised little sympathy amongst the black locals.
Plaque commemorating the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York City. The ballroom went out of business in October 1958. [22] Despite efforts to save it by Borough President Hulan Jack, Savoy Ballroom manager and co-owner Charles Buchanan, clubs, and organizations, the Savoy Ballroom was demolished for the construction of the Delano Village housing complex between March and April 1959. [23]
Connie's Inn was a Harlem, New York City, black and tan nightclub established in 1923 by Connie Immerman (né Conrad Immerman; 1893–1967) [1] in partnership with two of his brothers, George (1884–1944) and Louie Immerman (1882–1955).