Café Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People Barney Josephson with Terry Trilling-Josephson, University of Illinois Press, 328 pp., $29.95 In 1938 Greenwich Village, a former shoe salesman named Barney Josephson, inspired by European satirical cabaret, opens this country’s first night club to host both black and white performers for an integrated audience. Eyepopping …
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