Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker dancing at the Folies Bergère in Paris (1927)

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Vintage Photo

What’s known as the “Great Migration,” the mass movement of African Americans from the south to northern cities, saw 200,000 African Americans claiming New York–specifically Harlem–as their new place of residence. As a result, Harlem became a cultural hub for dynamic jazz and blues as well as a platform for rising jazz artists.

Source: allthatisinteresting

Vintage Photo

They look like their have a good time. Jitterbugging in African American juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi. 1939, Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer.

Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print