Julian the Historian – The Harlem Renaissance Under World, the Criminal Empire behind Jazz, Night Clubs and Politics + Ten Fresh – 102 Year Old Dancer Sees Herself on Film for the First Time

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The Harlem Renaissance Under World, the Criminal Empire behind Jazz, Night Clubs and Politics

Published 10 dec 2025

In the Smoke Filled Jazz Clubs of 1920 s Harlem, Duke Ellington Played to Packed Houses at the Cotton Club. Langston Hughes Wrote Poetry that Would Define American Literature. The Lindy Hop was Born on the Savoy Ball Room s Dance Floor. The Greatest Artistic Movement in American History was Happening in Real Time. But They don T Tell You Who was Paying for It.

They Said Black Culture was Primitive. That Jazz was Noise. That Black Artists Would Never Create Anything America Would Pay to See. They Were Catastrophically Wrong. But Here s What They Don T Teach in School, the Harlem Renaissance was Funded by Bootleggers, Built by Gangsters, and Controlled by the Same Criminal Underworld that Made Prohibition Era New York the Most Dangerous City in America.

This is the Untold Story of How Harlem s Culture and Harlem s Criminals Became Inseparable, How Rent Parties Invented Jazz while Collecting Bootleg Profits, How Policy Gambling King Casper Holstein Funded Langston Hughes s Poetry with Money Extracted from the Poorest Families in Harlem, How the Cotton Club Made Duke Ellington Famous While Segregating Its Own Audience, and How Tammany Hall Politicians Protected Mob Operations in Exchange for Bribes that Bought Elections.

From the Basement Rent Parties Where Stride Piano was Born, to Owney Madden s Mob Controlled Cotton Club, to A Lelia Walker s Dark Tower Salon Where Artists and Gangsters Drank the Same Champagn, This is the Story of How Policy Rackets, Speak Easies, and Political Corruption Created the Economic Eco System that Gave America Jazz, Swing, the Lindy Hop, and Some of Its Greatest Literature.

But It Came at A Devastating Cost. Families Betting their Last Dollar on Illegal Lotteries While Their Children Went Hungry. Communities Exploited by the Same Gangsters Who Funded Their Artists. White America Stealing Black Culture While Keeping Black Creators in Poverty. The Most Beautiful Art Emerging from the Ugliest Circumstances. This is 3 Hours of History They Don T Teach, Complex, Contradictory, Morally Impossible to Resolve, and Undeniably Real. The Harlem Renaissance Built American Culture. And It was Built on Blood Money.

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Mayme Hatcher Johnson & Karen E Quinones Miller – Harlem God Father, The Rap on My Husband,
Rufus Schatzberg – Ellsworth “Bumpy“ Johnson (2008)
Robert J Kelly – African American Organized Crime, A Social History (1996)
Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson & Graham White– Playing the Numbers, Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars (2010)
Roi Ottley – New World A Coming: Inside Black America (1943)
David Levering Lewis – When Harlem Was in Vogue (1981)
Ted Vincent – Keep Cool: the Black Activists Who Built the Jazz Age (1995)
Steven Watson – The Harlem Renaissance, Hub of African-American Culture, 1920 – 1930 (1995)
Contemporary Reports from The Amsterdam News, The New York Age, and Opportunity Magazine
Archived Records from the Cotton Club, Savoy Ball Room, and Apollo Theater
FBI Case Files on Organized Crime in Harlem (1920 s – 1940 s)
Oral Histories from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

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This Video is For Educational and Historical Purposes Only. It is Based on Credible Historical Sources and Aims to Provide an Accurate Account of the Harlem Renaissance, the Criminal Underworld that Funded It, and the Systemic Racism that Shaped Both. We Do Not Promote or Glorify Violence, Criminal Behavior, Illegal Activity, or the Exploitation Documented in This History. All Content is Presented to Foster Understanding of Complex Historical Events and the Moral Contradictions Inherent in This Era. This Video Fully Complies with YouTube s Community Guidelines to Ensure A Safe, Informative, and Respectful Viewing Experience.

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102 Year Old Dancer Sees Her Self On Film for the First Time

Published 20 apr 2015

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A Musical about Alice s Life is in the Works! See Pinned Comment for More Info.

A Book Featuring Alice Has Come Out! The Author Susan Visited Her Before She Passed, and It s A Fascinating History of the Importance of ‘Soundies‘ Films. So Amazing Alice Could Be A Part of Bringing All These Artists of Color the Recognition They Deserve! Link Here https://iupress.org/9780253058546/soundies-and-the-changing-image-of-black-americans-on-screen/

Alice Passed Away Peacefully on Wednesday, April 6th, 2016. She Spent the Last Day of Her Life in Good Spirits, Enjoying Listening to Music and Having her Mail Read to Her. Thank You to All the Thousands of Fans Who Sent in Cards, Flowers, and Art. You Truly Gave Her Deep Joy and meaning in the Last Years of Her Life!

Alice Barker was A Chorus Line Dancer during the Harlem Renaissance of the the 1930 s and 1940 s. She Danced at Clubs Such as The Apollo, Cotton Club, The Zanzibar Club, and On Broadway,with Legends Including Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. Although She Danced in Numerous Movies, Commercials and TV Shows, She had Never Seen Any of Them, and All of her Photographs and Memorabilia Had Been Lost over the Years.

After Years of Searching We Found Three “Soundies” Alice Appeared In and Were Finally Able to Show Them to Her, She Had Never Seen Herself in Motion in Her Life!

You Can Learn More about Alice at the Little Website We ve Set Op for Her http://www.alicebarkernotbaker.com/

All of Alice s films from this Video are Collected Here • Alice Barker on Film • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpg5D0AAA2w

For More Info about the Dancers of the Harlem Renaissance, We Recommend the Lovely Documentary “Been Rich All My Life“, Several of the Women in the Film Danced with Alice Back in the Day!

A Little More about the Who s Who Here “We” are Friends of Alice Who Searched for the Films and Made this Video. I M David Shuff, A Volunteer Who Visits the Home with My Therapy Dog Katie, and Have Known Alice for 8 Years. The Woman in the Video is Gail Campbell, A Recreation Therapist, and an Amazing One at That!. She Never Gave Up on Finding Alice s Films, and Uncovered the First Piece of the Puzzle that Lead to Us Finding Them, Which was Alicia Thompson, A Historian of Black Female Performers Who had Been Looking for Alice for Years, Her Site is http://forclassicmovieloversonly.trip (…) and Her YouTube Channel is “MusicandDancing4Ever“. She Told Us that Alice was In Films called ‘Soundies‘. Using that Clue I Found Jazz Historian Mark Cantor of http://jazz-on-film.com and He was Able to Send Us Three of Alice s Soundies from His Collection. Shortly Afterwards Alicia Got Us A Few More Films. This Video was Filmed on Cellphones, and Almost as an Afterthought! by My Friends Darin Tatum and Tom Hunt.

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