THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Question
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Blacks were allowed to socialize with Whites at the club.
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The Cotton Club was opened to promote fairness and equality.
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African-American entertainers made a name for themselves by performing at The Cotton Club.
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Langston Hughes became a promotor for The Cotton Club.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The club featured many of the greatest African American entertainers of the era, including Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Ethel Waters. However, while the performers were black, the club only permitted white audiences.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cotton Club was a whites-only establishment and reproduced the racist imagery of segregation, often depicting black people as savages in exotic jungles or as “darkies” in the plantation South. The club imposed a subtler color line on the chorus girls, whom the club presented in skimpy outfits.
Detailed explanation-3: -Opened in 1923, the Cotton Club on 142nd St & Lenox Ave in the heart of Harlem, New York was operated by white New York gangster Owney Madden. Madden used the Cotton Club as an outlet to sell his “#1 Beer” to the prohibition crowd.
Detailed explanation-4: -Weekly radio broadcasts spread the fame of the club and its musicians to a national audience. Among the many seminal figures of jazz and blues who performed at the Cotton Club, bandleader Duke Ellington was perhaps the most closely associated with the venue.