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Harlem’s Beauty Parlors

September 10, 2010 Stephen Robertson 5 Comments

Beauty parlors were the most prevalent form of black business in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. When George Edmund…

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Posted in: Maps, Photographs, Places Filed under: 108-110 West 136th Street, 135th Street, 1920s, 1930s, A. Philip Randolph, Apex system, beauty parlor, beauty salon, beauty school, beauty shop, black business, employment, Harlem, Lenox Avenue, Lucille Green Randolph, Madam C J Walker, numbers, Poro system, Sarah Spencer-Washington, Seventh Avenue, Simm's Blue Book

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