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Fillmore A LOOK AT THE DISTRICT’S JAZZ SCENE

n the 1940s and 1950s, the Fillmore District was known as the ‘Harlem of the West’ for its jazz clubs. Historically, you see, this is a Black neighbourhood: in 1939, there was a huge influx of African Americans from the South,

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