Dooly Wilson Casablanca

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Harlem Revue Royal American Shows 1950s 3

Harlem Revue Royal American Shows 1950s 2

Elwood Smith actor

1938 Antique Your Favorite Negro Spirituals Songbook

Untamed 1955 Paul Thompson

SHEILA GUYSE African American singer actress Broadway Race Films

JET Magazine July 18 1957 Carolle Drake

Oscar Michaux Book

OSCAR MICHEAUX AFRICAN AMERICAN MOVIE DIRECTOR

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Ethel-Moses actress Black Jean Harlow. Michaux Pictures

Dolly Sisters

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Miss-Topsy

Natalie Oguara

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Shuffle Along Musical Theatre during Harlem Renaissance

Nichelle Gainer Swing Harpist 1940’s

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FISK JUBILEE SINGERS

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Iola Leroy

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Homesick James April 30, 1910 – December 13, 2006 was an American blues musician known for his mastery of the slide guitar. He worked with his cousin, Elmore James, and with Sonny Boy Williamson

Jean-Idelle

Oscar Micheaux Barton County Golden anni memorial mailer

ROY DECARAVA Autograph African American Jazz

The South African Kaffir Choir, composed of singers recruited from Africa and performing in traditional dress, began touring America in 1894

Charlotte Wesley Holloman (March 24, 1922 – July 30, 2015) was an American soprano singer.

1930s African American Dance Photo

Ruth Ellington James

Cab Calloway

Rare! Our World (Negro) Magazine Dec 1955 Lovely Hill on cover actress

CECIL LAYNE

Hank Ballard of The Midnighters

Erskine Hawkins – Trumpet Player & Big Band Leader c1940s

1953 Mattiwilda Dobbs Opera Star

1953 Ruth Brown Negro Millionaires Club

1954 Mauri Lynn Hollywood Mood Singer

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1956 Rep. Cora Brown Senator

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Barbara Prestwedge 1956 TV Quiz Show Winner

JET Magazine January 13 1955 Carrie Adams First Negro Chorus Girl Las Vegas

Maria Cole Singer 1956

Sally Blair TV Singer

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1914 African American female sheet music CAPTAIN BETTY-

Black Americana sheet music collection THE LADY WITH THE AUBURN HAIR

Black Musician Winifred Atwell Flirtation Waltz R.Heywood

Dunes, Las Vegas, Nevada

Dunes, Las Vegas, Nevada

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Creole Belles Music Sheet

BRENDA STARR Black Burlesque Ebony 8×10 Vaudeville 1960

Burlesque Hostess Showgirl 1938 Rare Inter Racial Photo

GO DOWN, MOSES – CELEBRATING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUAL

“What’s Behind The NAACP 1956

BLACK THEATRE UNIDENTIFIED MALE DANCER

Manhattan Pauls 2

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1944 Marion Jackson Downs Stars at College she graduated from,SHC

AFRICAN AMERICAN OPERA STAR VERA LITTLE CONTRALTO

Lyric and Legend Idabelle Yeiser HCDJ 1947 SIGNED African American Poet

1949 Harlem Follies 2

1949 Harlem Follies

1930s HARLEM THEATRE – DANCE ACT ‘THE THREE STEP-SONS’

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1930 Plays Pageants Life Of The Negro

40s LOVELY AFRICAN AMERICAN GLAMOUR BEAUTY

Swingin’ on Central Avenue – African American Jazz in Los Angeles

African American Cabaret, South Side Chicago – 1941

African American, South, plays violin, white patrons ,New York night club,1942

Alfred Statler -1960 Geoffrey Holder Dancing

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1950 orig photo musician negro DJ Apollo Theater emcee Herman Am

1930s, UNKNOWN AFRICAN AMERICAN SWING BAND

Django 1934

Freddie Johnson and His Harlemites

Katherine Dunham Ballet Negre 1931.

The-First-American-Negro-Ballet-1937-1 (1)

1954 Concert

Carnegie Hall 1952

ORIGINAL FLYER FOR BIG BENEFIT CONTEST

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Tap dancer ,Albert Smith,1920

Ella Mae Actress

BLACK JAZZ BAND ANTIQUE PHOTO BRADFORD ON SAX STRINGER ON PIANO BOWSER ON DRUMS

Jazz by African American Artist Eli Kince

MAYA HENDERSON

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THE CATACOMBS By William Demby

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1956 COLOR Magazine

1920s Scintillating Colored Stars Columbia Records Firmament

Mary Stafford 1920s Scintillating Colored Stars Columbia Records Firmament

Playboy Jazz Festival 1950’s Jet Mag.

Althea Dean Actress

Dee Cee’s Dynamic Duo Herb Fame & Francine Day Jet magazine

Etta Moten Barrett vocalist

Loumell Morgan Trio

THE MIDWEST JUBILAIRES ST. Louis Missouri

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Charlerston 1

Jitterbug 2

Charleston10

Lindy Hop

Frankie_Manning

James Johnson Charleston

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Jitterbug 5

Jitterbug 6

Swing dancing at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York City, 1947. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Jitterbug 9

Jitterbug 8

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Jookin – Vol 6

Jookin’ 8 2

Jookin’ 8

Jookin’ The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture

Jookin’ Vol 10 2

Jookin’ Vol 10

Jookin’ Vol 11 2

Jookin’ Vol 11

Jookin’ Vol 12 2

Jookin’ Vol 12 2

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OUR WORLD September 1951 3

The Harlemaires 40s

Our World Magazine

Odetta and Langston Huhes 1959

Coast To Coast Top groups

East Coast Top Hits 1950’s’s

DON REDMAN SIGNED PHOTO 1930s African American Jazz Great

The Two Sweethearts singing group

c.1945 African American Bessie Dudley Jazz Tap Dancer

Early 20th C African American Folk Art – Jazz Musician Ensemble

WRIGHT SAXOPHONE ORCHESTRA

Spirit Of Memphis Quartette Memphis Tennessee

Bill Mackel l guitar

1943 THE SOUTHERNAIRES

The Miraculous Kittens -Harlem

1954 unused W.C. Handy personal Christmas card

WPA Jazz

Thomas Fletcher b, 1873 – , 1954) was an African-American vaudeville entertainer, actor, and writer.

Mabel Mercer Showgirl

January 13, 1955 First Las Vegas Negro Chorus Line

Jan 15 1953 Blondell Cooper Showgirl

COLOR Magazine Cover Louis Armstrong battles Communists Radio Free America Aug 1949

CLARA WARD & Her Gospel Singers~1962

1926 Photographs Struttin Sam From Alabam Colored Negro Musical Margaret Jackson

NEGRO DIGEST

Negro Courier Magazine Section Janet Colluns January 5 1952

Flip Wilson Black Vaudeville 1960 Apollo Harlem

1949 Intruder In The Dust Juano Hernández Black Americana

1957 Bill Doggett musician

Vintage 1940s African American Tulsa OK Down Beat Jazz Music Club

Tan Magazine March 1953 Sarah Vaughan

c.1925 Jimmy Powell and His 10 Harlem Steppers Jazz

Tan Magazine April 1953 Cardboard Cover Advertisement The Peters Sisters

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James Van der Zee Harlem Dancer

Ebony Magazine March 1962 -Leslie Uggams-

Raven Wilkinson Dancer

Louis-Jordan-and-His-Tympany-5-1950

FLORIDA CREOLS African American CAKE-WALK Miss BROUWN

The Jazz Record Magazine # 1 Feb 1943 Kaiser Marshall

Our World Magazine January 1953 Wyonnie Harris

ACTOR GORDON HEATH EMPEROR JONES AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICIAN b.1918-1991

Jet Magazine Oct 12 1961 Cover Features Oscar Brown Jr. Vi Velasco & Lonnie Sattin

Jazz at the Philarmonic 1951

Ernest Gaines

Ebony Magazine May 1954

Ebony Magazine December 1952 Oscar Peterson

COLOR (Negro) Magazine January 1957

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Ebony Magazine – November 1947- Meet The Real Lena Horne

1960 The Negro History Bulletin – Blacks in Theatre

Cotton Club

Elayne Jones 94 Obituary New York Times Timpanist

Bobby Short – Entertainer 1951

Sammy Davis, Jr.- Portrait of an American Star -1959) African American

Jack Mitchell -Geoffrey Holder-1964 -American-Photographer

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1936 WPA Federal Theatre Program African American Performers Macbeth, Welles 1

1936 WPA Federal Theatre Program African American Performers Macbeth, Welles

Mood Indigo by Duke Ellington VTG SHEET MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA

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Mary Lou Williams Piano Song Sheet Music Boogie Woogie Bebop Rockabilly

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EBONY-Magazine-1950s

EBONY Magazine August 1950 3

EBONY Magazine August 1950 1

Dory African American Sheet Music

DOES JESUS CARE AFRICAN AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC GOSPLE 1943 ROBERT ANDERSON

DINAH-WASHINGTON -What a Difference a Day Made-1934

Bon Bon George Tunnell Sheet Music Truthfully 1940s

BEBE, Moss and Frye photo African Americans in Vaudeville RARE Sheet Musi 1923

Big Band Duke Ellington

‘ Ballin The Jack Sheet Music Jonah Jones

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1948 SAVANNAH CHURCHILL THE FOUR TUNES Vintage Sheet Music TIME OUT FOR TEARS

1954 Sarah Vaughan -Make Yourself Comfortable-

1949 PAUL WILLIAMS & HIS ORCHESTRA – The HUCKLE – BUCK-

1954 Sarah Vaughan -Make Yourself Comfortable-

1956 11th Hour Melody Palmer Sigman Al Hibbler

1957 BILLY MYLES Vintage Sheet Music THE JOKER

1958 End of Rainbow Earl Grant Jacobson Krondes Vtg Sheet music

A BRAN DANCE SHUFFLE Black Americana Sheet Music Rag Time 1902

1890s Original sheet-music -Aint That-a-Shame-

1914 African American female sheet music CAPTAIN BETTY

1922 BLACK EYED BLUES vintage Jazz sheet music ROY BARGY Don Kendall

1929 -Colleen-Moore- -I Cant Have You

1937 My Cabin Of Dreams Dolly Dawn

1943 Sammy Price Sheet Music Book (5 Famous Boogie Woogie and Blues

ELLA FITZGERALD Blues Sheet Music

GOD LEADS -HIS DEAR CHILDREN ALONG- Roberta Martin

Honky Dory African American Sheet Music 1900

I THANK THE LORD KENNETH MORRIS SHEET MUSIC AFRICAN AMERICAN 1944

Im-Gonna-Love-That-Guy-Sheet-Music-Monica-Lewis

IVORY JOE HUNTER Sheet Music SINCE I MET YOU BABY 1956

African Symphony by Raymond Boghos Kupelian

Florence Mills -Harlem Jazz Queen

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1936 ETHNIC REX INGRAM EMPEROR JONES ACTOR

Antique Ad, Shattuck Quartette

Dancers in Harlem – Alexander Deyneka -1931

African American Composer Olly Wilson, 1977

1950’s Gloria Davy Photo by Carl Van Vechten HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Arna Bontemps -Chariot in the Sky A Story of the Jubilee Singer

Arna Bontemps -Chariot in the Sky A Story of the Jubilee Singer

Our World Magazine Photo Cover Carolle Drake July 1951

Rinkeydinks – Night Club Owners

Vintage Streetcar Dance Theatre Of Harlem Johnson Smith Dancers

Maria Louise Ewing (March 27, 1950 – January 9, 2022) was an American opera singer.

Arna Bontemps -Chariot in the Sky A Story of the Jubilee Singer

Burlesque Hostess Showgirl 1938 Rare Inter Racial

Negro Music

Movie 2 Green Pastures 1936

Paul Edward Winfield (May 22, 1939 – March 7, 2004) actor

NORMAN STUDIOS. The Flying Ace, featuring Lawrence Criner and Kathryn Boyd.

We’ve Come a Long, Long Way Movie Poster, 1943

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Lobby Card, 1958

TWO HALLELUJAH! LOBBY CARDS – MGM 1929

The Flying Ace.

That Man of Mine Movie Poster c. 1946

c1940 African American Gospel Church Choir

[CIVIL RIGHTS]. It Happened in Springfield. New York, NY -Warner Bros. Pictures,

African American singers and music 2

African American singers and music 2

African American Vaudeville team STUMP & STELLO.

Bill Baron Sax

Film -She’s too Mean to-Me Mantan Moreland.

Hall Johnson

What a Guy film Mantan Moreland

Springfield 1

Springfield 3

AFRICAN AMERICAN COMPOSER SIGNED MUSIC CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE b.1880 -1965

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Joya Sherrill -Singer-Duke Ellington’s Band

Jet Magazine Teresa Harris actress

Muriel Smith 1940-1950 Singer

1943 REAL PHOTO PCs BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN DWARF, RALPH DAVIS sideshow

1938 THE PULLMAN FOUR KGER RADIO MUSICIANS LONG BCH CA.

Mysterious Marie Laveau – Voodoo Queen,

Mysterious Marie Laveau – Voodoo Queen, 2

African American Actor Moses Gunn b 1929-1993

1940s AFRICAN AMERICAN JAZZ BASSIST DALLAS BARTLEY

1940s AFRICAN AMERICAN JAZZ BASSIST DALLAS BARTLEY

William Horace Marshall (August 19, 1924 – June 11, 2003) was an American actor, director and opera singer.

Negroes on the Stage -Othello

CAKE WALK

Henri Woode and his Great Orchestra

Harlem Follies Movie Poster 1950

Eddies Laugh Jamboree

Early Negroes on Broadway

Colored Musical Comedy -Showgirls- ca. 1930

IVIE ANDERSON singer Duke Ellington Band

Keep Punching Lobby Card

(FILM.) TODDY FILMS. Gun Moll.

Prison Bait Movie Poster c. 1944

Swing Michaux Film

Sunday Sinners-Movie Poster -1941

WILLIAMS, Ted (1925-2009), photographer. Sarah Vaughn, Backstage

Legendary African American Actress Esther Rolle- Raisin in Sun-

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New-Day-Spirituals-1930

Mary Caldwell Dawson – Opera

1942 List of Spirituals

1937 Book of Spirituals

1938 List of Spirituals

Marian Anderson Book Cover

1927 Negro Spirituals

American Negro Spirituals 1942 James Weldon Johnson 2

Roy Eldridge

A Big Cry Baby In The Moon 1909 BLACK WRITERS

NATIONAL CONVENTION 21ST PROGRAM AFRICAN AMERICAN 1953 GOSPEL MT OLIVE CATHEDRAL

Negro Unit Theatre US Government Project 1930

1923 all colored cast RARE pressbook of the movie REGENERATION

CLARA WARD & Her Gospel Singers-1962

Philippa Schuyler August 2, 1931 – May 9, 1967) was an American concert pianist, composer, author, and journalist.

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Kenneth Morris Gospel Song writer

Ebony Mag. 1959 Abby Lincoln

Birdland Stars 1957

Birdland Stars 1957. 4

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Birdland Stars 1957. 3

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-The Negro Love Song- Original Watercolor by E.T.D.D. 1939

1917 H T Burleigh Black Americana Sheet Music

1895 Black Americana May Irwin -Mamie- Plantation Negro Songs Sheet Music

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1909 Choir

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1956 Show Page

Chuck Berry 1956

Rock-n-Roll-portraits-1956.

Rock n’ ‘Roll Stars 1956

Rock n”Roll Stars 1956

Rock-n-Roll -Show Program-

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Show Pamphlet 1956

Top Record Stars 1956

Miller and Lyles Comedians in -Shuffle Along-

Lucian Clump African American 1

Lucian Clump African American 1

Theatre Arts Magazine Bound Vol.26 July-Dec 1942 The Negro In American Theatre

Run Little Chillun- Play by Hall Johnson-1933

Run Little Chillun- Play by Hall Johnson-1933 2

Run Little Chillun- Play Hall Johnson-1933-2

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Harlem Revue 2

Harlem Revue 3

DEVIL’S DAUGHTER Movie 1939

Charles Gilpin Emperer Jones 1920

ANTHONY NELLÉ (1894-1977) -Shine Ladies Shine.- Set design – African-American musical

1940s STEPIN FETCHIT PUBLICITY PHOTO

1800s UNCLE TOMS CABIN VICTORIAN THEATER AD TRADE CARD

1800s UNCLE TOMS CABIN VICTORIAN THEATER AD TRADE CARD 2

Prisonaires music group Ebony Mag.1953

1929 Sissel and Blake

1899-Sheet-Music-Black-Americana Cake-Walk -Bunch-O-Blackberries-

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Ruby Lee 1946

Vera Francis COLOR mag. 1953

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Velma May

Black Americana Cousin Ida Mae Lester Burlesque

Gospel Singers c 1890-2010

Wade and Wade

Photo Berthe Pilgrim

Shirley Verette – Opera Singer 1931 -2010

Color magazine 1952 Philippa Schuyler

Black Americana -Cake Walks- Sheet-Music

Black Americana – Cake Walk -Sheet Music-

Black Americana -Cake Walks- Sheet Music

Reri Grist (born February 29, 1932) is an American coloratura soprano

St Louis Cotton Club Jazz Band 1925

Marian Anderson at the Metropolitan Opera 1955

Lavinia Hamilton – Dancer 1954 Our World magazine cover

Janet Collin first Negro dancer at Met

Eddie Bonnemeer Orchestra- Mambo

Dianne Carroll play House of Flowers 1955

Clara Ward Gospel singer 1953 magazine

Bill and Leotyne Warfield 1955

1913 Gospel Quintet

Unknown Singer1946

Our World magazine Janet Collins at the Metropolitan Opera

Tamara Hayes singer Ebony Magazine 1952

1959-Sammy Davis Jr .-Porgy-and-Bess-Sportin Life.

David Thorne Alley at Song-

Integration Performance Rat-Pack

Jewel Brynner Hi-Top Lounge Pittsburg, PA 1962

Leonard-De-Paurs-INFANTRY-CHORUS.

1927 Magazine

Movie silent -Casey Jones Jr.- 1923 LIGE CONLEY at the upper left and SPENCER BELL..

Leonard Etienne De Paur (November 18, 1914 – November 7, 1998) was an American composer, choral director, and arts administrator.

1932 Nightclub Map of Harlem New York City

Percy Rodriguez – actor Photo RPPC by Carl Van Vechten HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Camille Williams Opera Singer

Staging Faith- Religion and African American Theater from the Harlem Renaissance

Songsheet Joshua Peckham -1850s

Sheet Music AIDA OVERTON WALKER from BANDANNA LAND 1907

JET MAGAZINE May 1, 1958 JOANNE RANSOM

Portrait of Florence Mills Edward Streichen

Map of Harlem 1953

Marian Anderson African American Singer Lincoln Memorial Concert 1939

1929 NY Times newspaper w illus AD 1st AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSICAL MOVIE Hallelujah

Marvin Gaye

AFRICAN AMERICAN COMPOSER SIGNED MUSIC CLARENCE CAMERON WHITE BOSTON

Nina Simone SEPIA 1960 part 2

Nina Simone SEPIA 1960 2

1920s Norman Studios Regeneration Romance All Black Cast

1940 DEE CLARK African American Singer

Dick Gregory & D.Day Negroes in movie

Gloria Davy Opera singer

Julius T . Lee, Jr. Actor

Early 1900s African American Music School ,Chicago

Black Entertainers

Annabelle BERNARD OPERA SINGER

National Association of Negro Musicians 1952 Brooklyn

ca. 1940 THE CADILLACS

c1940 RAELETS RAY CHARLES ORCHESTRA

URYLEE-LEONARDOS-in-No-Sad-Songs-For-Me-1950

Woman Musicians 2a

Woman Musicians 2c

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Simon Estes (b. 1938) is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent

June McMechen Opera Soprano 1948

Juanita Hall became the first African American to win a Tony Award,

1908 OLD PLANTATION MINSTRELS THEATER SHOW

1947 Scott Joplin Ragtime Compositions

George-William-Bagby-VIRGINIA-NEGRO-IN-1875-A-Rich-Treat..

Jump for Joy -Duke Ellington

Porgy and Bess

TED JOANS (1928 – 2003) Untitled

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W. C. Handy Signed Sheet Music Dated 1945

UNCLE TOMS CABIN HARRIET BEECHER LITHOGRAPH

The Poinciana Quintette

Stan Kenton Bandleader Racism

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Earl Grant – At the End of the Rainbow

Cozy Cole 1946 Drummer

Silvia Lord – Singer

ORIGINAL FLYER FOR BENEFIT PERFORMANCE

Langston Hughes ‘The First Book of Jazz’

THE ORIGINAL FLORIDA BLOSSOMS Black Americana, Vaudeville,

Lil Abraham A Pathetic Melody of Dixie Land 3

Lil Abraham A Pathetic Melody of Dixie Land 3

Lil Abraham A Pathetic Melody of Dixie Land 3

jazz singer Celeste Cole (1908-1984

California Black Club Souvenir

All African American cast

Maurice Hunter Photo Collage- The African American of 1,000 faces

ALL COLORED CAST 1928 BLACK GOLD

Earl Grant -At the End of the Rainbow-

CLARENCE MUSE Actor

Detective Story ’51 AFRICAN AMERICAN RUSSELL EVANS

Raymond St. Jacques was an American actor, director and producer b1930-1990

1901 SHEET MUSIC ~ THE VOO DOO MAN ~ WILLIAMS & WALKER

Beauty Contest Dianne Carroll

Vintage Photo 1940s – Scatman Crothers

Bea Booze (May 23, 1920 — 1975)

Coltrane Village Vanguard NYC 1961

From 1933 until 1946-47 Margot Webb and Harold Norton performed Afro-American vaudeville circuits

Francine Everett (1915-1999) -singer

COTTON CLUB Program Music Jazz Club

COTTON CLUB Program Music Jazz Club 2

COTTON CLUB Program Music Jazz Club 3

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Jazz vocalist Maxine Sullivan (1911-1987)

Movie Poster with LA Rams Players

1929-DEFORD-BAILEY-first-Black-American-to appear–the Grand Ole Opry-

Music Cover, Virginia MMovie Poster with LA Rams Playerselodies, Alexander Kyle, African American

The Realization of Negroes Ambition -movie

Southland Spirituals Rodeheaver 1946 2

Southland Spirituals Rodeheaver 1946 3

Valery Ward -Actress, known for The Errol Flynn Theatre (1956), Paul Robeson Group

1937-AFRICAN AMERICAN-Lauretta Butlers- Dance Revue

June Ekstein Singer Jet 1960

Singing-Star- Carroll Brice

Louisiana Amazon Guard Revue (1901)

RICHARD THURSTON MUSICIAN PIANO

Harry T. Burleigh Composer African-American

Quincy Jones

George Mills – Dancer

Mildred Joanne Smith actress, singer, magazine editor. b1921-2015

1960 Try to Remember Sheet Music The Fantasticks Harry Belafonte

He was by far the best-selling Black recording artist before 1920. In 1918, the New York Dramatic Mirror called Williams -one of the great comedians of the world.-

Southland Spirituals Rodeheaver 1946

Cab Calloway and Band in a Train Sleeper Car c1930s

Apollo Theater Marquee c1940s – NYC

78RPM HOT PIANO Jelly Roll Morton Duke Ellington Fats Waller

Famous Negro Music Makers By Langston Hughes 1955

Black American Music Sheet

Negro Magician, Mid Century

Franz Huld Cake Walk series c. 1900

Anna’s Sin ’61 AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTOR BEN JOHNSON

Arthur Stewart Farmer was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

Bert Williams c1910 African American Black Vaudeville

Bunny Evans model singer

EUSEBIA COSME-The Pawnbroker

NATIVE SON Original Movie

Marissa Benedetti Actress

Lords of the Forest movie1958

The Green Pastures Early Black African American 1930 Columbia Theatre Play

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Roy Hamilton

1944 Bertha Fitzhugh Baker Recital Program

1956 Blues Jazz TN Black Americana Concert Poster

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THE COLORED MAJOR BLACK AMERICANA MUSIC SHEET

Twigg Celestial Gospel Singers

Harlem Jamboree Showgirls c1930s

Singing-Star-

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Pair of African American History Black Gold – movie

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Harlem Jamboree Showgirls c1930s

Silent Film Negro Motion Picture The Green-Eyed Monster Movie Flyer

Notice- Stop Don’t Buy Negro Records Vintage Poster

NEGRO-BLACK SPIRITUALS TALK ABOUT JESUS

NEGRO-BLACK SPIRITUALS O PRECIOUS LORD

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My Coal Black Lady – Sheet Music1896

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1940s Black American Big Band Group -The Three Cleffs

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1941 AUBREY PANKEY Black American baritone booking ad before becoming expat

1950 movie- No Way Out-4 Poitier, and three of Ruby Dee, Amanda Randolph and Mildred Smith.

1950 movie- No Way Out-

1950 movie- No Way Out-3

1950 movie- No Way Out-3

1953 -CRAZYLEGS- MOVIE POSTER NFL – LOS ANGELES RAMS

962 Black Jazz musicians offended by US State Dept music tour

African American Music signed William Grant Still

Blues People- Negro Music in White America- Leroi Jones

Neal FOUNDER – AMERICAN NEGRO THEATER

Gwendolyn Killebrew (1939-2021) Black American Met. Opera

essie Maple BLACK WOMAN FILMAKER 1937 – 2023 obituary NY Times

Black Drama Story of the American Negro in the Theatre Loften Mitchell 1967

Jet Magazine AUGUST 1 1957 Movie Ad

100 Songs From The Cotton Fields Words, Music 1884

African American Chorus Line Dancers c1930s

November 15, 1939-2020 Yaphet Koto

Ronny Clanton b.1946 Actor

Jet Mag. 1962 Sammy Davis Jr. Chubby Checker

Melody Masters Wurlitzer Church c1940s

Silvia Lord singer Jet Mag.1962

The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington

African American Bar Club-Cincinnati Chicago Cotton Club

1937 Book Of Black American Music. Rolling Along In Song. J. Rosamond Johnson

1944 ad APOLLO THEATER Harlem ELLA FITZGERALD

1944 ad APOLLO THEATER Harlem PRAIRIE VIEW BAND

1945 Jazz

1945 Jazz -2

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1973 Billy Taylor Jazz Mobile

Benefit of Mr. A.J. Leavitt The Champion Banjo Soloist of America. Philadelphia, 1860.

Black Theater

Eartha Kitt

Jet 1956~ Broadway

Great Negro Dance Bands –

Porgy & Bess

Great Negro Dance Bands -2

Jet 1961~ Coltrane

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African Americans In Films 1905-1947- 5

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African Americans In Films 1905-1947- 2

African Americans In Films 1905-1947 Excerpts

James Russell Drawing Art -New Orleans Jazz Band Of 1914-

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Hal Singer-1950s

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The Delroys -1950s

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Gospel Pamphlet

Gospel Pamphlet -2

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1900 -THE THREE MUSICAL BUTLERS- THREE AFRICAN AMERICAN SAXOPHONE PLAYERS

African American Actor DON JUAN Dancer CABARET France

NELLY de CARVI TAYLOR African American Man DANCER Cabaret CAKEWALK

The Piano Player Wood

The Wright Saxophone Orchestra

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Big Band Age – book

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Zee Wilson. Actress Interplay. Zee Wilson is known for Interplay (1970) and The Outsider (1968).

DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM LOBBY CARD SET 1946 AFRICAN AMERICAN CAST

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1881 ‘AFRICAINE ~ The African Woman~ Giacomo Meyerbeer opera

Louisiana Amazon Guard Revue (1901)

Sonny Thompson 1955

Joe Liggins 1951

Take a Giant Step 1953 play)

LOUIS SMITH JAZZ TRUMPETER RPPC AFRICAN AMERICAN BLUE NOTE MEMPHIS

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Anna’s Sin ’61 AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTRESS ANNA VITA MARISA BENEDETTI

Halls Of Anger ’70 CALVIN LOCKHART PLAYING BASKETBALL AFRICAN AMERICAN

ALFRE WOODARD -in-Holiday Heart-

Dick Gregory – Classic Comedian, Civil Rights Activist

John Beasley 79 Obituary New York Times Actor Rudy Everwood Negro History

Music Ad 1954

JIM BROWN RICHARD ELKINS AFRICAN AMERICAN

Kyle Johnson (1951) is an American actor, most notable for his performance in the 1969 film The Learning Tree.

Roosevelt -Rosey- Grier is an American actor, singer, Protestant minister, and former professional football player.

Juke Joint- ALL-BLACK-CAST-1947-film-w-Spencer-Williams.

KENNY WASHINGTON black actor pro football player & JEAN CRAIN

Richard Wright’s -The Long Dream- – 1960 Playbill – 2

Richard Wright’s -The Long Dream- – 1960 Playbill – 2

Shirley Scott-singer-1950s

David Whitman. Actor Out of the Unknown.

Moms Mabley – Rosemary Cash

Moss and Frye photo African Americans in Vaudville RARE Sheet Musi 1923

Kenneth Morris (1917 – 1989) was an African American composer of gospel music and publisher

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IMITATION OF LIFE Original poster from the 1949

If I Ever Get BACK TO CINNCINNATI S.H. DUDLEY African American Music Sheet

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946 BLACK AMERICANA Sheet Music FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS Deek Watson

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Vivian Carter, Founder of Vee Jay Records

Black Herman’s ‘s Secrets of Magic-Mystery & Legerdermain, 1938

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film stars Ruby Dee, Powell Lindsay and -Henri Woode and His Six Hepcats-. eatures Anna Mae Winburn and -The International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Negro Ensemble Company – Douglas Turner Ward, Artistic Director

Betrayal Poster, 1948

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It Happened in Harlem

Life Goes On -movie

Musical Theater Actress Emma L. Hyers in Costume c1880s –

No Time For Romance

St. Louis Blues

The Midwest Jubilaires Gospel Group

The Dixie Hummingbirds

THALMUS RASULALA VONETTA McGEE in Blacula

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LOUNELL MORGAN TRIO

Unknown Band

The Williams Trio

The Midwest Jubilaires Gospel Group

3 CHOCOLATES

Michael D. Roberts is an American actor. b.1947

EDNA THOMAS Negro Spirituals 1926

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The-Modern Jazz-Quartet from Dizzy Gillespies-rhythm-section.j

Beulah Elizabeth Richardson (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000), known professionally as Beah Richards and Bea Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.

Rose Murphy (1913 – 1989) was an American jazz pianist and singer,

Fisk Jubilee Gospel Singers 1910

Margie Joseph Black Americana R&B Soul Gospel Singer

1963 Earl Robinson Folk Singer Composer

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1940’s SOUVENIR PHOTO DALLAS ROSE ROOM AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUB HALL ST

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PHILLY JOE JONES RENOWNED DRUMMER

Ma Rainey and Band c1920s – Mother of the Blues

MICKEY & SYLVIA SHEET MUSIC LOVE IS STRANGE (1957)

Tom Kelley- Dorothy Dandridge 1950

Loray White. Actress-The Notorious Cleopatra. Actress

SINGERS DICK SAUNDERS & ELLA MAE WATERS

Hilly Gene Hicks Sr. is an American character actor. b 1946

Natalie Curtis Burlin- 1875 – 23 October 1921) was an American ethnomusicologis

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1947 ERROLL GARNER

1957 JET Magazine

African American Band 1910- 1920

ANDY KIRK And HIS ORCHESTRA WITH JUNE RICHMOND

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Emily Foster singer

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1940s African American Broadway Dancer Sheldon B Hoskins

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Negro Spirituals as sung by Pace Jubilee Singers 1932

Gene McDaniels

JOHNNY RAY LEARNS STYLE FROM NEGROES

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Chick Webb and His Orchestra

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Clara Williams Jubilee Singers

BURLESQUE IN HARLEM Original Movie Flyer

SEPIA CINDERELLA Original Movie Flyer

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Aida Overton Walker African American Dancer

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Hot Mikado 5 & 6

Hot Mikado 3 &4

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1924 Newspaper Page – Harry T. Burleigh, Grandson of Slave Sings in Church

American jazz musician Valaida Snow circa 1930

ARTHUR MOSS & ED FRYE EARLY 20TH CENTURY AFRICAN-AMERICAN VAUDEVILLE TEAM

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Blackface minstrelsy was the first uniquely American form of theater.

Jet Mag. 1956 Clark Terry

1942 BRICKTOP & Blues- Boogie Woogie famed Cafe Society

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NEW REVIEW Vol 1 No. 9 May 1954 African-American Digest- Josephine Premice

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NEW REVIEW Vol 1 No. 8 April 1954 African-American Digest Sammy -Comedian

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940 Black African American Young Women in Dance Line

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Founded in the late 1910s by Floridians Cortlandt Sevelle and his brother Wilbert Belton, the Belton’s Society Syncopators

The Canadian Jubilee Singers were a group of black African-American singers and musicians.

Lilian Evanti Opera Singer 1890 -1967

Ira Aldridge The Negro Tragedian

AFRICAN DRUMS Fred Puleston ILLUSTRATED 1930 MEMOIR artist

JAMES A. BLAND -GREAT ETHIOPIAN SONGS- RARE AFRICAN AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC.

African American Photos Lindy Hop

EV’RY LITTLE BIT HELPS Music Sheet-1904-JENKINS Romantic Couple- Black Americana

Edward H BOATNER – Trampin’ Negro Spiritual 1931 African American

The Negro in the American Theatre 1st Edition 1947

1935 – African-American Piney Woods Cotton Blossom Singers

EDISON DIAMOND DISC RECORD -CHARACTERISTIC NEGRO MEDLEY

RHYTHM & BLUES Music Magazine Aug. 1960

RHYTHM & BLUES Music Magazine Aug. 1960 -2

RHYTHM & BLUES Music Magazine Aug. 1960 -3

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Bert Williams George Walker

3 Antique Black Americana Die-Cut Scrap Christmas Cornucopia Candy Ornaments

Mae Mercer (June 12, 1932 – October 29, 2008) was an American blues singer and actress.

JAMES VAN DER ZEE NEGRO ACTOR

Soul and Pop Singer MARY WELLS

PORGY & BESS Theatre Program African American Opera 1940s Seattle

Moms Mabley at The Apollo

Little Richard at The Apollo

Concert Poster

Blues and Soul Singer JACKIE WILSON

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The Apollo Original MOTOR TOWN Motown REVUE

AFRICAN-AMERICAN Glee Club Rehearsing a Song 1955

Cab Calloway 1940s Band African American

ARKANSAS ARTIST GELEVE GRICE

1938 FLASH~~Sports~Jive Swing Dance -magazine cover

1950’s Spiritual Travelers Quartet

Augustus D. Gus -Jenkins (1931 – 1985) was an American blues and R&B pianist, vocalist and bandleader

Langston Hughes – Jazz Book – illustration

Jazz Club Berlin 50s, singer Velma Middleton

DOWN BEAT Jazz MARCH 31, 1960 Blues Issue -magazine cover

AUTOGRAPH MAGAZINE PHOTORAPH BUDDY TATE AL GREY EDDIE JONES

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1881 -Little Maggie’s Waltz- Blind John Boone-Famous African American Composer

American Negro Blues Festival 1963

The largest public auditorium in Harlem, with 25,000 square feet t 5,000 people on the dance floor -several thousand spectators.

Jet Magazine November 27 1958- musicians barred

Aurora Borealis Greeley (1905 – 1983) dancer and choreographer from the 1920s -1940s.

Wings Over Jordan WORLD’S GREATEST Choir 1949 2

JOSEPH PHILLIPS in TV Hothouse

Negro Unit Theatre US Government Project 1930

ALL COLORED CAST 1926 THE FLYING ACE AFRICAN AMERICAN SILENT MOVIE

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Bim Bam Boom Vol. 1 #1 -The Cleftones,

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #-120 Jack Owens,

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #120 – The Intrigues

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Blues & Rhythm Magazine #203 Eugene Wright with Duke Ellington, Willie King

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Blues & Rhythm Magazine #226 Jessie Mae Hemphill,

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #219 Dave Bartholomew,

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #218 Carl Martin, Artie ‘Blues Boy’ White

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #254 Johnny Shines & Robert Lockwood,

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #261 -Mighty Joe Houston

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #273 -, Mercy Dee Watson

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #28 Bluebird Label, Frank Motley, Atlanta Gospel

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Blues & Rhythm Magazine – The Gospel Truth Christmas Issue – Little Sam Davis

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Lil’ Son Jackson

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #273 -Abdul Rasheed

Negro Digest Magazine John H. Johnson June 1950

Newport Jazz Festival Duke Ellington, Count Basie

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BLUES AND RHYTHM – – FRANK MOTLEY- COVER

Blues & Rhythm Magazine – J.B. Lenor

Blues & Rhythm Magazine Tina Davis – cover

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #63 J.D. Nicholson,

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #49 The Sultans w. Lionel Hampton

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Blues & Rhythm Magazine Oct 1997 No. 123 -Henry Townsend

Blues & Rhythm Magazine Denis Binder

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #249 Reginald Cooper Earl Brown

Blues & Rhythm Magazine #232 Mel Alexander

Blues & Rhythm Magazine- Sammy Myers

Bogard Brothers -gospel quartet from Memphis. mid-60’s to the early 90’s

Charles Edward -Cow Cow – Davenport (1894 –1955) [1] an American boogie-woogie and piano blues player

Joe Morris

Joe Morris

Elmore James

Dionne Warwick b.1940 -singer

Magic Slim. Morris Holt ( 1937 – 2013), known as Magic Slim, was an American blues singer and guitarist.

LUES RHYTHM THE GOSPEL TRUTH MAGAZINE #121 AUGUST 1997 LAVERN BAKER COVER

May 24, 1944 Patti LaBelle – singer

Piano Jazz Magazine 1945 -cover

THELONIUS MONK JAZZ GUITAR & BASS COMPETITIONS -ad

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Big City Rhythm And Blues -December 2019 – Mrs. HiC and Fresh Start

Blues & Rhythm Magazine Oct 1997 No. 123 Henry Towsend

Just A Sittin’ and A-Rockin- Delta Rhythm Boys 1945

Julius Watkins , 1921 – 1977) jazz musician – played French Horn.

Jukebox Photo

Juke Joints 3 -album description

JUKE JOINT SATURDAY NIGHT-CLASSIC PIANO BLUES RAGS & STOMPS

Juke Joint Jump – album cover

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Joe Louis – Strikes Back Cotton Club

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JUKE JOINT – photo

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GLORIA SMYTH – LIKE SOUL! 1961

Gerri Wayne Black Burlesque Star

Ferguson’s Dixie Jubilee Concert Company- 1900-1906

Ellen Hightower African American Dancer Katherine Dunham 1965

Esquire’s Jazz Book Sydney Beckett trio 1943-44

Essential Jazz -book cover

Evolution Of African American Music Hand Drawn

‘Famous Door Bar’ Dixieland jazz club 1950s

FASHION SHOW + REVIEW STARRING POCAHANTAS CREWS PGH 1945

Earther Doss 1962 Doo Wop Singer

David Murray Special Quartet

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IF YOU GAMBLE IN THE NAME OF LOVE -sheet music

HELLO MA BABY 1900 – music sheet

WW1 ~ When Lord Makes a Record of a Hero’s Deed- He Draws No Color Line -enhanced

Wavelength New Orleans Music Magazine -Bobby Mitchell singer with the Toppers 1950’s

STRIVERS ROW by ABRAM HILL & GRASSROOTS PLAYERS- Striver’s Row

St Louis MO – Gaslight Square Night Life Jazz Club 1950s

SHEILA VERTICE – African American Actress

Sheet music -Black writer

R&B hitmaker penned tunes for everyone from Donna Summer to Aretha Franklin. b 1943

Rhythm And Blues Magazine Oct. 1963 Coleman Hawkins, The Drifters -coverver

Richard Berry -Get Out Of The Car- album cover

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George Johnson TheWhistler

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Princess Tammy Black Burlesque 1960

Princess Chiffon 1961 Black Burlesque

Poster The Famous Southern Wonders Quartette

Playboy Magazine October 1956 & Jazz Poll

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N ELSIE SMITH. JAZZ SAXOPHONIST. . 1957.

Naomi Price 1950 Apollo Theater Mistress Of Ceremonies

Negro documentary all black cast film

Night Club Tap Dancer Johnny McAfee – 1940’s

Patti Austen b. 1950 (age 73), Harlem, New York – singer

Music Hits Boogie Woogie -instructions

Music Hits Boogie Woogie -instructions

MISSISSIPPI JUKE JOINT BLUES -SEPTEMBER 9, 1941 – album description

MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS -COTTON CLUB DANCER

Mighty Instrumentals -sheet music

Mayme Richardson- Opera Recital 1936 Steinway Concert Hall

Madeline Bell is an American soul singer, b. 1942

Lu Elliot (August 3, 1924 – March 5, 1987) was a jazz and blues singer

Keita Leila 1950 Black Burlesque

Rockin’ Dopsie (1932-199

Living Blues – Vintage Music Magazine – Tarheel Slim – Luther Tucker

Lester J. Kinsey Jr., known as Big Daddy Kinsey, 1927-2001 Chicago blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player.

Dances Created by Blacks

1955 Newport Jazz Festival – Miles Davis

1956 Newport Jazz Festival

Cordie- Singer

Composer Kerry Mills

THE BEST OF JAZZ II- book cover

Scott’s Symphonic Syncopaters Detroit Ragtime

JAZZ JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 1955 Andrew Blakenley

Yatilda Nix – Detroit 8 x 10

-Red- Sounders [i.e. Saunders], drummer

Esquire Jazz Bands – 1947

Woman 1950s!

1910 Harlem Soprano singer Mabel Diggs (1894-1987) -The Child Wonder-

1938 COTTON CLUB REVUE

CLIFF JACKSON 1940s African American Jazz Pianist

BLACK BROADWAY c AIDA OVERTON WALKER in ABYSSINIA Cecil Mack 1906 1

HUE Magazine April 1955 – Alice and Dolores Hamilton

Harlem NYC – Tommy Jonsen Dancers

Crisis Magazine Cover Erskine Hawkins May 1940

OPERA BARITONE TODD DUNCAN 1903-98

Art Deco Celebrity Photo The Singing Weavers

Henri Matisse Jazz le Cirque

Connie Kay, Jazz drums

The Negro Ensemble Company- founders and Rosalind Cash

Hallelujah 1929 Black Film 1st African American Musical

Paul L. Dunbar , African American, Lyrics of the Hearthside1899

American Song Sheet- I’M OFF FOR CHARLESTON 1855 – Dialect Song

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