The Whitman Sisters “The Whitman Sisters were the highest-paid act on the Negro Vaudeville Circuit, Theater Owner Booking Association (Toby), and one of the longest surviving touring companies (1899-1942). The group was considered the greatest incubator of dancing talent for Negro shows on or off Toby, and significantly contributed to American theater …
Category: Vaudeville
The Whitman Sisters “Black Vaudeville Royalty”
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November 28, 2020
- Albert "Pops" Whitman, Alberta Whitman, Albery Allson Whitman, Alice Whitman, Barnum & Baily Circus, Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson, Billy Kersands, Bunny Briggs, Buster Brown, Caddie Whitman, Caswell W. Whitman, Cholly Atkins, Clarence “Pinetop” Smith, Count Basie, Dale Ricardo Shields, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Ethel Waters, Fayard Nicholas, Henry LeTang, Jeni LeGon, Jimmy Slyde, Leonard Reed, Lonnie Johnson, Ma Rainey, Mabel Whitman, Mary Lou Williams, Moms Mabley, Nadine George-Graves, NEGRO VAUDEVILLE, Prince Spencer, profile, Reed & Bryant. Pine Top Smith, Shirley Temple, The Whitman Sisters, The Whitman Sisters New Orleans Troubadours, Trixie Smith, Willa Mae Lane
Leigh Whipper
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November 4, 2020
Leigh Whipper By Dale Shields Leigh Whipper the first Black member of the Actors’ Equity Association (1913) * Born in (1876) Charleston, South Carolina, died (1975) New York City, New York. “Although a strong presence in the (still extant) Oscar Micheaux drama Symbol of the Unconquered (1920), gaunt-looking African-American performer Leigh Whipper had …
The Mammy Archetype: A Black Maiden Syndrome
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November 4, 2020
Media Depictions of the Mammy Archetype by Dale Ricardo Shields The Mammy archetype is one of the most notable Black stereotypes and caricatures which exist in American culture. “In reality, the pancake mix was the creation of two White men in Missouri, and they named it after a character in a minstrel song, not an …
- Abbey Lincoln, Al Jolson, Amanda Randolph, Anna Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Beau Bridges, Bette Davis, Bob Corley, Butterfly McQueen, Cicely Tyson, Clark Gable, Claudia McNeil, D.W. Griffith, David O. Selznick, Diahann Carroll, Dorothy Dandrige, Edith Wilson, Estelle Evans, Esther Rolle, Ethel Waters, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hattie McDaniel, Ida B. Wells, Jean Harlow, Jennie Lee, John Kenrick, Kathryn Stockett, Lauri Peters, Lillian Randolph, Louis Armstrong, Louise Beavers, Marla Gibbs, Marlon Hurt, Maxine Sullivan, Nan Martin, Nancy Green, Nell Carter, Octavia Spencer, Oprah Winfrey, Otis McDaniel, Rosie Lee Moore Hall, Ruby Dandridge, Sanaa Lathan, Shirley Temple, Sidney Poitier, Theresa Harris, Viola Davis, Virginia Capers, Vivien Leigh, Whoopi Goldberg, William Hanna