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Rail Splinters

Uptown, Saturday Night!

February 5, 2023

If you were around in 1940 and wanted to take the subway up to Harlem, you might have caught a performance of “Booker T. Washington”, touted as a “Colored ‘Abe Lincoln in Illinois’”. Produced by the Rose McClendon Players, the price of admission was 49 cents.