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I really appreciate Hartman's chapter on Gladys Bentley. I'd learned about Bentley's life in bits and pieces, and I'm not sure how much archival info is actually preserved on her because she was a working class performer. But something about how Hartman presented these scraps of info made Bentley feel alive.

This book keeps driving home the beauty and terror of the Great Migration and growth of Black Philly & NYC

It seems like a glaring omission to me that I didn't learn this history in high school. School I went to was not too far from Philly, and I remember the Gilded Age was a big topic of discussion. I remember talking about NY and Chicago but not really about what it looked like in our own backyard

I love Ida B. Wells