What It Was Really Like At The Cotton Club

Opened in 1920, Harlem's Cotton Club was a red-hot venue. However, despite its location, the club's audience was whites-only, in stark contrast to its cast of all-Black performers. So what was the legendary Cotton Club really like? #History #Venue #NightClub Bootleg booze only | 0:00 White audience, black performers | 1:20 Up-and-coming stars | 2:14 You could meet all kinds | 3:11 The dancers | 4:05 Things got risque | 4:57 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson | 5:46 Duke and Adelaide | 6:35 Audience integration | 7:17 Fog machines and special effects | 7:58 1935 Harlem riots | 8:41 Cotton Club wannabes | 9:43 Voiceover by: Tim Bensch Read Full Article: https://www.grunge.com/1045995/what-it-was-really-like-at-the-cotton-club/