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Chitlin’ Circuit Landmark: The Bronze Peacock
Don Robey put Houston on the chitlin’ circuit map in the mid-1930s, when he operated a series of downtown nightclubs. One, the Harlem Grill, stood on W. Dallas Avenue, the Houston stroll, then the...
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Vice: Financing the Chitlin’ Circuit
While the circuit relied on black media for publicity, it received much of its operating revenue through the vice industry. Drinking in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Marion Post Wolcott. Library of Congress...
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Chitlin’ Circuit Ephemera: Houston
Check out the evolution of black music in Houston through colorful ads and photographs that appeared in the Houston Informer. All of the action depicted here went down thanks to the misunderstood Don...
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