Entertainment along U Street:
Washingtonians heard some of the city's best music in the theaters and clubs along U Street, an area known as the "black Broadway." Famous names like Washington Duke Ellington and Bessie Smith played at the Howard Theater on 7th and T St., N.W.
U Street played a significant role in the national literary, intellectual, and artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Figures by Anna Johnson