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Harlem Renaissance Map
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- 135th Street and 5th Avenue
- Lower class place
- Bad reputation due to drugs, prostitution, and pimps
- Enter through a narrow underground passage
- 25 x 125ft room with capacity of 100 people
- During Saturday nights: about 200 customers crowded in a small space
- Performers: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington
- Closed due to the Great Depression and the end of the Prohibition.
Harlem
Cotton Club
- 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue
- Opened by Jack Johnson in 1920 - 400 seats Club Deluxe
- Owen Madden renamed to "Cotton Club" 1922 ; renovated into a 700 seats club
- White-only
- African-American entertainers were allowed
- Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, Lena Horns, Bills Robinson
- Closed in 1940 followed the Harlem riots in 1935
Cotton Club in 1930
Savoy Ballroom
596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets
Sugar Cane Club
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Johnson's Home
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Lafayette Theater
- 132nd Street and 7th Avenue
- House of Beautiful
- Opened in 1912
- 2000 seats
- First theater to desegregate in New York City
- Black/White performers and audience
- Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Bill Robinson, Chick Webb, Bennie Molten and Fletcher Henderson.
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