In segregated Chicago, black and tans provided lively nightlife in the early 20th century
In 1922, Genevieve Forbes took Tribune readers on an armchair tour of Chicago’s demimonde. She regularly covered crime and high society, but it was a slow news day. So she wrote about black and tans, as nightclubs with a mixed-race clientele were known. At one, she noted that a patron had more than a little too much to drink. “She is lifted vaguely, on her way to the ladies room,” Forbes wrote. ...
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