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Music In Bronzeville

In honor of Black Music Month check out these vintage photos of music in Bronzeville. What a time!

Gerri Oliver in front of the Palm Tavern in 2001, the year the city shut it down. Credit: Jim Newberry

Louis Armstrong poses for a photo in 1959 from the barber chair at the Sutherland Hotel at 4659 South Drexel Boulevard. Credit: John Puslis / Chicago Sun-Times

Dinah Washington singing at the Roberts Show Lounge.

Muddy Waters at the 708 Club, 1956.

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