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Chartered in 1935 after African-American musicians were denied admission to Local 77, Union Local 274 of the American Federation of Musicians counted John Coltrane and Dizzy Gillespie among its members. When it ended in 1971, it was the last predominantly Black AFM local in the U.S. Its union office was here.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States
