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Cotton Club opens in Harlem
1923
142nd Street and Lenox Avenue, Harlem
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Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway built their reputations here in front of whites-only audiences, in a club that hired Black performers and refused Black customers. It ran on that arrangement until 1935.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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