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Cotton Club, legendary nightspot in the Harlem district of New York City that for years featured prominent Black entertainers who performed for white audiences. The club formed the springboard to fame for Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, and many others.
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In the 1920’s, women like Josephine Baker were breaking barriers as the country began to fight for equality. The Cotton Club opened in Harlem but unfortunately women entertainers were subjected to a “paper bag” test where only those whose skin color was lighter than a brown paper bag were hired.
- The Grand Opening
- Cotton Club Acts
- A Sign of The Times
- The Decline and Legacy
African-American heavyweight boxer Jack Johnson purchased a fledgling casino at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem in 1920. Under the name Club Deluxe, Johnson's supper club didn't have much success. It wasn't until the gangster Owney Madden acquired the property from the boxer in 1923 and renamed it the Cotton Club that things took off. Madde...
Many genuine talents got their start at the infamously bigoted but popular speakeasy. The overall entertainment consisted of musical revues, singing, dancing, comedy, variety acts, as well as the famed house band. Fletcher Henderson was the first bandleader, with Duke Ellington famously taking the helm in 1927. Ellington recorded over 100 compositi...
Though the owners of the Cotton Club paid their entertainers well, those talents experienced their rise to fame at a venue that promoted the very stereotypes against them. Titled On the Shoulder of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance, Abdul-Jabbar lamentedthat "the Cotton Club, which promoted the inferiority of black identity, was a m...
The original Cotton Club was at the height of its popularity from 1922 to 1935. But in the wake of the Harlem riots in 1935, the club relocated to another New York location and never regained its earlier magic. It closed in 1940. A Chicago branch of the Cotton Club was run by Ralph Capone, Al's brother, and a California branch in Culver City, Calif...
A photograph of Cab Calloway and his dancers at the Cotton Club in Harlem circa 1937. The Cotton Club launched the careers of legendary African-American actors, musicians, and dancers who personified the Jazz Age. But the club’s legacy of racism and discrimination undermined the progressive cultural shifts created by African-Americans during ...
Cotton Club dancer Mildred Dixon – Duke Ellington's second companion. The Cotton Club was a whites-only establishment with rare exceptions for black celebrities such as Ethel Waters and Bill Robinson. It reproduced the racist imagery of the era, often depicting black people as savages in exotic jungles or as "darkies" in the plantation South.
Pearl of the Harlem Renaissance Cotton Club. During the Harlem Renaissance The Cotton Club was one of the most famous nightclubs in history. The Cotton Club's story points at many reasons why we love the 1920's and also why the decade has a split personality. Jazz is art of individuals working in unison to create a sublime sound.
Cotton Club ―whites only‖11 - clearly, for those whose project is writing about the Apollo, the neighboring Cotton Club is not ―the real thing.‖ And while false accusations of racial exclusion are certainly the most common, some of these other mistakes appear as well. In Babylon Girls, her book on African American chorus lines (but not,
