found: Work cat: Boy! What a girl!, 1947:(depicted: rent parties in Harlem) (DLC)2023600500
found: Encyclopedia Britannica, 2016, viewed online May 9, 2023(rent party; party thrown by African Americans who lived in urban neighborhoods during the early decades of the 20th century to collect money for rent; music was an essential element, developed into a style known as skiffle; lindy hop also evolved during these parties)
found: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, 2004 viewed May 9, 2023 via the Internet Archivep. 582-583 (house-rent parties; mainly held during 1920s-1930s in Harlem and other large cities; hosts would sell tickets to these nightlife events, held in their home, to collect money to pay the landlord; bootleg liquor and jazz musicians were common, many also had gambling and drug use in back rooms)
found: Merriam-Webster unabridged dictionary online, viewed May 9, 2023(rent party; a party to which admission is charged with the profits going to pay the host's rent)
found: Sage encyclopedia of economics and society, viewed September 13, 2023( "Historically, rent parties are most often and significantly associated with apartment life in African American neighborhoods...Rent parties continue to be hosted in urban centers. Activists often hold rent parties to raise rent for social centers, infoshops, activist offices, or collective houses. The rent party provides the basis for larger-scale house parties and raves that emerged in deindustrializing Rust Belt cities such as Detroit, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; and Manchester, England.")
