*...o clock He...arlem and was omnipresent in the...nity's numerous and extremely diverse...ches.
The rest of the time He was represented here by Father Divine, His self-appointed surrogate.
Father Divine described himself as God. He dwelt in his own Heaven-on-the-Hudson, a palatial country estate within calling distance of the then Squire of Hyde Park, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Since Father Divine Was careful to keep his followers well fed, they readily accepted him as God. They dined sumptuously at lavish feasts in his satellite heavens. They worshiped him with ecstatic devotion.
"I am God!"
"Ain't it the truth, Father!"
Outside the gates of heaven, there was a stompin' nightly in the Savoy Ballroom at Lenox Avenue and 140th Street. The lindy hop was in vogue and Harlem was its headquarters. People from everywhere took the A train of the Eighth Avenue subway uptown.
"Dusky sash across Manhattan," poet Langston Hughes called Harlem, symbo...elegence and distin...the 1920's. Th...
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