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This enamel pin features a detail from Harlem Is Heaven, 1932, by an unknown designer.
Harlem is Heaven is a musical drama film about a Southern girl who comes to Harlem in search of work. She and her soon-to-be lover are troubled by her employer, a racketeering boss. He is ultimately indicted on fraud charges.
The film stars Bill “Bojangles” Robinson who was one of the first Black performers to sidestep vaudeville's unspoken “two-race rule” determining that Black tap dancers could not perform solo on stage and could only dance in pairs or in a group. In Robinson’s most notable scene in Harlem is Heaven, he tap dances up and down an Art Deco staircase. He echoed this performance three years later in the film The Little Colonel in which he appeared with child star Shirley Temple in the first interracial dance performance in a Hollywood film.
Measures 1.5 x 1.25 inches. Single posted.
