The+Tree+of+Hope

**by Janae**
 * Grade 5**

The Tree of Hope was an elm tree right between the Lafayette Theater and Connie’s Inn. During the 1920’s in Harlem, Black performers were wishing for jobs on the tree. The reason people thought the elm tree was for hope was that there were people who came to the area of the Lafayette and Connie’s Inn who would hire them to perform. During the 1930’s the elm tree was cut down. Two managers of the Apollo Theater in Harlem bought a big root of the tree. All the performers at the Apollo Theater rub it for luck before they perform.