Mabel Hampton was a performer and domestic worker who lived as an out lesbian in New York City from 1920 until her death in 1989. Her recorded oral histories offer a rare firsthand account of Black lesbian life during the Harlem Renaissance.

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Audio source: Mabel Hampton Oral History Collection, used by permission of the Lesbian Herstory Archives.

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