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Nixon Building, Tuxedo Junction
Nixon Building, Tuxedo Junction
Tuxedo Junction in
Birmingham
,
Jefferson County
, was a nightlife center for African Americans from the 1920s to the 1950s. Musician
Erskine Hawkins
played at the junction as a child and named his 1939 hit "Tuxedo Junction."