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Porter Primers: The rise of jazz

The Secret Life of Canada

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Maea, the Harlem of the North

The transmission of culture across north america at that time can really be linked very clearly with the expansion of passenger rail travel. The fact that they acted as a conduit just propelled that information to flow within the black communities that the trains frequented. And of course, that nothing happened overnight. We were not talking, you know, to day's world of social media and things are instantaneous, you know.

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