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Cafe Society, New York 1943 Menu Art Anton Refregier – Vintage Menu Art Vintage Posters, Public, Greenwich Village, York, Jazz, Cafe Society, Vintage Menu, 1930s, Giclee Print

Restaurateur Barney Josephson already owned the trailblazing Cafe Society in Greenwich Village - the interracial nightclub where black and white musicians performed for mixed audiences in the 1930s and 40s. The nightclub was also the scene of Billie Holiday’s first public performance of Strange Fruit, the haunting protest song about black lynchings in the South. Politically astute and an ardent supporter of civil rights, Josephson instructed the great jazz singer to sing the iconic song at…

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