Curated teaching resource
Lenox Avenue (Malcolm X Boulevard): Harlem’s heartbeat (Hughes, Juke Box Love Song)
By Wikipedia / NYC geography
- Collection
- U.S. Primary Sources
- Subject
- History
- Grades
- Grades 7-12
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- Primary Source
- Curriculum
- Cross-curricular
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- wikipedia.org
Why this resource is included
Hughes described Lenox Avenue’s traffic as Harlem’s heartbeat in Juke Box Love Song. Runs from Central Park North (110th) to 147th Street. Mount Morris Park Historic District from 119th to 123rd. In the fictional 1958 Harlem: Lenox Avenue is the main artery bookworms walk. The jukebox music from Hughes’s poem plays from bars along the avenue.