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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
On Kentucky Avenue – The Atlantic City Club Harlem Revue, created by Adam and Jeree Wade, who each performed at Club Harlem in different decades, [44] made its New York City debut during Black History Month 2013. [45] It plays every few months at Stage 72. [44] The club served as one of the filming locations for the 1980 film Atlantic City. [46]
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 ...
Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, and City History Club [74] established. 1897 February 10: Bradley-Martin Ball held. [7] April: Grant's Tomb completed. September 21: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus newspaper editorial published. Unknown: Steeplechase Park opens. Bohemian National Hall built. 1898
Entrepreneur Ed Smalls [a] owned a small venue in Harlem, the Sugar Cane Club, from 1917 to 1925, which catered primarily to local residents. [4] [5] When Smalls opened Smalls Paradise [b] in the basement of an office building at 2294 Seventh Avenue, he envisioned a night club which would not exclude his neighbors but would also be attractive to New Yorkers who lived in the city's downtown area.
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.
The Harlem Renaissance from 1920 to 1940 brought worldwide attention to African American literature. For many years, especially in the 1920s, Harlem was home to a flourishing of social thought and culture that took place among numerous Black artists, musicians, novelists, poets, and playwrights.
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]