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Lenox Avenue (Malcolm X Boulevard): Harlem’s heartbeat (Hughes, Juke Box Love Song)

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Collection
U.S. History & Primary Sources
Subject
History
Grades
Grades 7-12
Format
Primary Source
Curriculum
Curriculum alignment not recorded
Publisher or host
wikipedia.org
Source language
English

Classroom fit

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.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Arthur Schomburg Center, 515 Malcolm X Blvd)

History · Grades 7-12 · Primary Source · nypl.org · English

20 East 127th Street: Langston Hughes House (Langston Hughes Place)

History · Grades 7-12 · Primary Source · nyctourism.com · English

A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance (NMAAHC, Smithsonian)

History · Grades 7-12 · Primary Source · si.edu · English

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