Braddock Hotel was a hotel at the corner of 126th Street and 8th Avenue in New York City, near the Apollo Theater.[1] The hotel bar was popular with black jazz musicians,[2] and Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington performed here.[3] Before he joined the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X (then known as Malcolm Little) often spent time at the hotel's bar.[4]
There was also a Braddock Hotel near the Southland ballroom in Warrenton Street, Boston.[5]
. Alan M. Wald. Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade. 2007. Univ of North Carolina Press. 978-0-8078-3075-8. 284.