2014 HHT Lecture Series - Hotel Olga: Race Retreat Of The Harlem Renaissance

In December 1920, Ed H. Wilson opened a small hotel expressly for Harlem’s African-American clientele.For a quarter century that spanned the storied Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression and WWII, Wilson’s swank haven for “the Race” offered travelers of color a key waypoint in America’s most renowned black community.