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Black Activism & the Jazz Age

Aug 20, 2024 | History | 0 comments

This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in the U.S. For our submission guidelines, click here. While the literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance are correctly celebrated as intellectuals and activists, jazz musicians of the time were not extended similar credit despite frequenting some of the same clubs, […]

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