Question

In Harlem during the 1940s, tensions between black and whites began to escalate which lead to the jazz scene eventually moving downtown to a one-block area on 52nd Street between Fifth and Six Avenues. This area, known as ________, was home to a cluster of clubs that had been speakeasies during prohibition. As the 1930s gave way to the 1940s, more and more of them converted to jazz venues.

Answer 1

West 133rd Street that Billie Holiday called “was the real Swing Street like 52nd Street later tried to be”