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Episode 101: Promise

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Ida Cox, a 19 Year Old Girl in a White Strapless Gown

Cafe society night club was a play on words, a utopian hangout in greenwich village. The place had opened a year before as an intentional thumb nose to white gloved and white skinned manhattan night life. It was the only spot south of harlem here the performers in the crowds were entirely integrated. On any given night you could find langston hughes, or paul robeson or assorted rockefellers, or eleanor roosevelt. Watching everyone big joe turner, sarah vaughan, lena horn, but not ida cox - she was sick.

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