The Whitman Sisters were four African-American sisters who were stars of Black Vaudeville. They ran their own performing touring company for over forty...

Mae Whitman (born June 9, 1988) is an American actor. She began her career as a child actor, starring in the films When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), One...

hop and mambo. Popular vernacular jazz dance performers include The Whitman Sisters, Florence Mills, Ethel Waters, Al Minns and Leon James, Frankie Manning...

Basie (née Morgan) (1914–1983) was a dancer who performed with the Whitman Sisters and starred as a featured dancer in musical short films called soundies...

Women-led touring companies like Black Patti's Troubadours, the Whitman Sisters and the Hyers Sisters were popular acts. Other women worked the business side...

Walter Whitman Jr. (/ˈhwɪtmən/; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential...

Margaret Cushing Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive, diplomat, and politician serving as the United States ambassador to...

of Robert Whitman Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet and humanist William Francis Whitman Jr. (1914–2007), horticulturist Whitman Sisters, African-American...

his Chicago Follies company (which included his wife Gertie); the Whitman Sisters and their Company; musicians Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Louis...

1901 of pneumonia. Whitman had a wife named Caddie and four daughters. The daughters formed the vaudeville troupe The Whitman Sisters, who performed together...

this period is Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, a protégé of Alice Whitman of The Whitman Sisters around 1904 (then known as "Willie Robinson"). Well versed in...

autonomy and better conditions, which included Sisieretta Jones and the Whitman sisters; these women supported each other and interacted socially at society...

the late 1920s, when Leonard Reed and Willie Bryant were with the Whitman Sisters troupe on the T.O.B.A. circuit in Chicago, they created a tap dance...

investor and philanthropist Martin J. Whitman. He also has a sister, Tony Award-winning producer Barbara Whitman. He graduated from Yale University with...

(born 1949), founder of Essie Cosmetics, Ltd Essie Whitman (c. 1887 – 1963), one of the Whitman Sisters black vaudeville stars Essie Hollis (born 1955),...

The Whitman massacre (also known as the Whitman killings and the Tragedy at Waiilatpu) refers to the killing of American missionaries Marcus and Narcissa...

American theater and dance. Books The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender and Class in African American Theater...

implies exhaustion. Lane, Arabic -English Lexicon (1863) p. 1619. "The Whitman Sisters: Why We May Never Silence Them" Floyd Jr., Samuel (2002). "Ring Shout...

Ottis Dewey "Slim" Whitman Jr. (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013) was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his yodeling...

Dragula" Season Five". The Georgia Voice. Retrieved 23 December 2023. "Whitman Sisters (biography)", Library of Congress Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia...

actor (d. 1976) Bill Walker, actor (d. 1992) Spencer Bell, actor Whitman Sisters, actresses Ira Aldridge, actor Amanda and Samuel Chambers, early members...

the Nicholas Brothers and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Alice Whitman of the Whitman Sisters was highly praised for her skills in both ballet and tap-dancing...

Florence Cole Talbert Eva Taylor Big Mama Thornton Sippie Wallace Whitman Sisters Edith Wilson Lena Wilson Etta Moten Barnett Louise Beavers Gladys Bentley...

"I Sing the Body Electric" is a poem by Walt Whitman from his 1855 collection Leaves of Grass. The poem is divided into nine sections, each celebrating...

dancer/choreographer Aida Overton Walker, "The Queen of Cakewalk", and The Whitman Sisters, who ran a touring company considered 'an incubator for Black Talent...

McGill. Still friends despite the years, the other Ya-Ya Sisters, Caro Benett, Teensy Whitman, and Necie Kelleher, decide to take the matter into their...

most notably performing for a week in June 1928. The Whitman Sisters consisted of four sisters (Essie, Mabel, Alberta, and Baby Alice) who performed...

Grass is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. Though it was first published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing, rewriting...

Albery Allson Whitman, minister, poet, orator known as "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race". Also father to the Whitman Sisters. Whitman Sisters Alberta, Essie...

Grear's Original Midnite Ramblers, the Richard Cheatham Orchestra, the Whitman Sisters, Honey Brown's Orchestra, Henry P. McClane's Society Orchestra and...