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The Negro in New York choose

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[US] in Ottley & Weatherby Negro in N.Y. (1967) 245: In debunking the ‘Negro Renaissance,’ the Negro writer, Wallace Thuman, spoke of the artists and writers who exploited the white people who supported it as the ‘Niggeratti’.
at -ati, sfx
[US] (con. a.1940) Ottley & Weatherby Negro in N.Y. 249: The only furniture was a piano at which a ‘box-beater’ extracted weird and dissonant harmonies.
at box-beater (n.) under box, n.1
[US] (con. 1925–9) Ottley & Weatherby Negro in N.Y. 249: Many small-time ‘pimps’ and ‘madames’ [...] operated undercover ‘buffet flats’.
at buffet (flat), n.
[US] (con. 1925–9) Ottley & Weatherby Negro in N.Y. 249: The house-rent party [...] blossomed in the 1920s. Mostly employed as ‘pot rasslers,’ [...] ‘sud busters,’ and ‘ham heavers’, Negroes found their small salaries inadequate for Cotton Clubs.
at sud-buster, n.
[US] (con. 1925–9) Ottley & Weatherby Negro in N.Y. 240: The steady increase in Harlem’s population led to an overflowing of this class into the Washington Heights section, known to negroes as ‘Sugar Hill’.
at Sugar Hill, n.
[US] (con. 1925–9) Ottley & Weatherby Negro in N.Y. 247: Ed Small’s now-forgotten Sugar Cane Club at 135th Street and Fifth Avenue. It was Harlem’s main ‘jump joint’.
at jump joint (n.) under jump, n.
[US] (con. 1925–9) Ottley & Weatherby Negro in N.Y. 249: The house-rent party [...] blossomed in the 1920s. Mostly employed as ‘pot rasslers,’ [...] ‘sud busters,’ and ‘ham heavers,’ Negroes found their small salaries inadequate for Cotton Clubs.
at pot-wrestler (n.) under pot, n.1
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