Braddock Hotel

Braddock Hotel was a hotel at the corner of 126th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City, near the Apollo Theater.[1] The hotel bar was popular with black jazz musicians,[2] and Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington performed here.[3] Before he joined the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X (then known as Malcolm Little) often spent time at the hotel's bar.[4]

There was also a Braddock Hotel near the Southland ballroom in Warrenton Street, Boston. [5]

References
  1. Wald, Alan M. (2007). Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-8078-3075-8.
  2. Gormley, Beatrice (2008). Malcolm X: A Revolutionary Voice. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4027-5801-0.
  3. Music in the USA : A Documentary Companion: A Documentary Companion. Oxford University Press. 28 August 2008. p. 541. ISBN 978-0-19-803203-8.
  4. Wainstock, Dennis (2009). Malcolm X, African American Revolutionary. McFarland. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-7864-3934-8.
  5. Basie, Count (2002). Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie. Da Capo Press. p. 226. ISBN 978-0-306-81107-4.

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