Subsequently, he went to the Nest, Small's, Connie's Inn, the Capitol, Happy's, and the Cotton Club, where he also found few, if any, African Americans in attendance. As he explained in his amusing 1927 article The Caucasian Storms Harlem, Fisher had discovered that, in the years he had been living in Washington, whites had taken over Harlem nightlife.
In reality, the large hoards of white people that went to clubs in Harlem to listen to jazz were out for an exotic night on the town. When slumming went out of fashion, the amount of people that originally went to the clubs slowed down to a trickle, and only people that held a true interest for African American culture and jazz continued to visit Harlem and other densely populated areas of African Americans (Gerard 97-101). .
The popularity of jazz sprouted in every major city in the United States. Along with this popularity, however, came the risk of it being deemed the "root of all evil". People accused jazz of influencing women and adolescents to act more provocatively in manner and dance in ways that entailed sexual activities. Dances such as the "Lindy Hop", "Jitterbug", "Susie Q", and the "Shag" were seen as disruptive, obscene, and lead to sexual deviation, but in actuality were merely bodily movements that implied nothing that was sexual in nature. As a reader wrote to Hygeia, a magazine of the American Medical Association, "Isn't it possible that 'jitterbug' dancing incorporates sufficient sex expression to create a minor perversion among adolescents who consciously or subconsciously form the habit of partial expression of sex to the accompaniment of 'hot' music?" These dances created a fit of hysteria among conservative Americans, as well as among religious figures and authorities. Religious figures condemned them to be "Satanic fool's play," "a refined form of masturbation," and as "negroid mating rites" (Crease 211). In the midst of all these denunciations against jazz, a liberal and intelligent priest by the name of Reverend Charles Stelzle looked past the immediate comclusions that jazz and anything related to it was unsavory and gave a sermon that in some ways extolled the existence of jazz (Osgood 248): .