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Connie's Inn was a Harlem, New York City nightclub established in 1923 by Connie Immerman, a white bootlegger.^[1] It was located in the basement at 2221 Seventh Avenue at 131st Street.

Acts featured there included Louis Armstrong^[2], Moms Mabley ^[3], Fats Waller, Wilbur Sweatman, Peg Leg Bates ^[4], and Fletcher Henderson. Like the Cotton Club, Connie's Inn featured African-American performers, but restricted its audience to whites only.

References

• Allen, Irving L. The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Page 75.
• Wintz, Cary D., and Paul Finkelman. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Routledge, 2004. Page 581.

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