Legendary bandleader Duke Ellington and countless other jazz greats got their start at New York's Cotton Club. In which neighborhood would you have found the iconic club?
Answer Harlem
From 1922 to 1935, the Cotton Club was THE venue for black entertainers—Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, and the list goes on. An ugly irony, however, is that the performers played to white-only audiences; the Cotton Club was known as the most strictly segregated nightclub in New York.
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