Eric Lott

Eric Lott

male, 50 years old
Eric Lott (b. 1959) is an American Professor of English and social historian. Lott received his Ph. D. in 1991 from Columbia University. He has...
Mamie Smith

Mamie Smith

female, deceased (1946)
Mamie Smith (May 26, 1883 - September 16, 1946) was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress, and appeared in several motion...
Billy Murray

Billy Murray

male, deceased (1954)
Billy Murray (25 May, 1877 - 17 August, 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century....
Emmett Miller

Emmett Miller

male, deceased (1962)
Emmett Miller was an American minstrel show singer noted for a yodel-like falsetto voice, born in Macon, Georgia on February 2, 1900. In addition...
Tony Pastor

Tony Pastor

male, deceased (1908)
Antonio Pastor (May 28, 1837-August 26, 1908) was a variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American...
Ernest Hogan

Ernest Hogan

male, deceased (1909)
Ernest Hogan (born Ernest Reuben Crowders, 1868? to 1909) was the first African American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show ("The...
Clarence Williams

Clarence Williams

male, deceased (1965)
Clarence Williams (October 8, 1898 - November 6, 1965) was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and...

George Christy

male
George Christy (born George Harrington) was one of the leading blackface performers during the early years of the blackface minstrel show in the...
Master Juba

Master Juba

male
Master Juba was the stage name of William Henry Lane, who danced in minstrel shows in the 1840s. He was one of the first black performers in the...
Billy Whitlock

Billy Whitlock

male, deceased (1878)
William M. "Billy" Whitcock was an American blackface performer. He began his career in entertainment doing blackface banjo routines in circuses...