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01/08/2009
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Crosscut.com
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Article first published online on 05/29/2007. "From the earliest years, Washington Hall was also used by those from outside the Danish community, particularly by African Americans. In his book Jackson Street After Hours, author and music critic Paul de Barros cites Seattle's first documented jazz performance by a local ensemble, Miss Lillian Smith's Jazz Band, as taking place at Washington Hall on June 10, 1918, at a "Grand Benefit Ball" for the NAACP. Marcus Garvey spoke there to the members of his movement, the United Negro Improvement Association, in the early 1920's, according to Seattle independent researcher and author Esther Mumford."