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The Harlem of the West


Denver's "Harlem of the West" | Rocky Mountain PBS

An annual day-long event that celebrates the historic Five Points neighborhood through music, food, and festivities.

Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era - Bolinas ...

Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era ... In the 1940s and 50s, San Francisco's Fillmore District was a vibrant multicultural neighborhood where ...

Why San Francisco's Fillmore District Is No Longer the 'Harlem of the ...

Step inside and you're front and center for why this neighborhood got the moniker “Harlem of the West.” In the 1940s and '50s, the Fillmore was ...

Denver's Five Points: The Harlem of the West - The Jaxson

Situated around the intersection of East 27th, Welton and North Washington streets, Five Points became known as the “Harlem of the West”.

The Harlem of the West: What's to Become of The Fillmore?

1300 on Fillmore, one of the last African-American-owned restaurants on the corridor. Lauded for its gospel brunches and soulful, swanky vibe.

Jazz Minute - Harlem of the West: The Fillmore - YouTube

SFJAZZ presents this Jazz Minute – a brief look at important figures, movements, and moments in jazz history and the present day, ...

Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era|Hardcover

In 220 lovingly restored images and oral accounts from residents and musicians, Harlem of the West captures a joyful, exciting time in San Francisco, taking ...

The Fillmore: The Story - PBS

Within five years, San Francisco's black population had grown tenfold, and the Fillmore District was being called the "Harlem of the West," replete with ...

Harlem of the West – The San Francisco Jazz Era | Jazz on the Tube

Then along came Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts who began an ongoing multi-decade labor of love documenting one of America's great African-American communities ...

“The Harlem of the West”: Learning about the Fillmore District

A large-format book full of fond remembrances of the Fillmore District during that time from people who lived through it.

Harlem of the West - The Fillmore Jazz Era - YouTube

Elizabeth Pepin Silva and Lewis Watts will present an illuminating slide show and talk about the new edition of Harlem of the West: The San ...

Harlem of the West - The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era - Goodreads

Through dozens of archival photographs and oral accounts from the neighborhood residents and musicians who experienced it at its height, Harlem of the West ...

Harlem of the West - San Francisco Public Library | BiblioCommons

Harlem of the West — Pepin, Elizabeth, — "The Fillmore was one of the few neighborhoods in the Bay area where peple of color could go for ...

Sf Japantown: Returning the Harlem of the West

It's 1945, and Japanese American families, who have just endured 3 years of incarceration as “enemy aliens,” are returning to San Francisco.

Harlem of the West | 730 Stanyan | San Francisco

As the African American community began planting roots in the Western Addition in the late 1940s and the early 1950s, the Fillmore neighborhood became a ...

Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era | MoAD

‍In the 1940s and 50s, a jazz aficionado could find paradise in the nightclubs of San Francisco's Fillmore District: Billie Holiday sang at the Champagne ...

How Five Points came to be the 'Harlem of the West'

Five Points was actually once called the Harlem of the West because entertainers came from the east, New York, etc. They would came as far as ...

Film: Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era

In the 1940s and 50s, the twenty block radius known as the Fillmore District was home to over a dozen nightclubs where many legendary ...

Presentation: Harlem of the West with Lewis Watts - YouTube

Lewis Watts will present an illuminating slide show and talk about his work and research on the book, Harlem of the West: The San Francisco ...

Harlem of the West - The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era - Softcover

Harlem of the West - The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era by Pepin, Elizabeth; Watts, Lewis - ISBN 10: 0811845486 - ISBN 13: 9780811845489 - Chronicle Books ...