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- In the early 1940s, African American musicians arrived in Chicago by train. They disembarked at the Illinois Central Railroad station on the edge of downtown and the South Side “black belt.”
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv3znzb4The Black Musician and the White City: Race and Music in ...
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