The place was New York City. The time was the 1920s, the Jazz Age. Nowhere did the music seem as loud or play as sweet as it did in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem. There, a flowering of African American culture created a community bursting with artistry, political energy, and racial pride. This was a time when a large amounts of artists, writers, musicians, thinkers, historians, Blacks that were deeply involved in the arts and politics, and people with various talents stepped on the scene. Harlem was the center of urban black life. If you wanted to write, you went to Harlem. If yo…
