A crowd at the Texas Playhouse in San Francisco's Fillmore District on September 10, 1958. This image can be found in the book "Harlem of the West," which documents a time when the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday hung out in the only neighborhood where they could find a hotel room after performing for all-white audiences. (Reprinted with permission of Chronicle Books, courtesy of the Wesley Johnson, Jr. Collection)

The Lightening of San Fransisco

A crowd at the Texas Playhouse in San Francisco's Fillmore District on September 10, 1958. This image can be found in the book "Harlem of the West," which documents a time when the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday hung out in the only neighborhood where they could find a hotel room after performing for all-white audiences.

Credit: Reprinted with permission of Chronicle Books, courtesy of the Wesley Johnson, Jr. Collection