The Whitman Sisters were four African-American sisters who were stars of Black Vaudeville. They ran their own performing touring company for over forty...
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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...
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hop and mambo. Popular vernacular jazz dance performers include The Whitman Sisters, Florence Mills, Ethel Waters, Al Minns and Leon James, Frankie Manning...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Margaret Cushing Whitman (born August 4, 1956) is an American business executive, diplomat, and politician serving as the United States ambassador to...
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of Robert Whitman Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet and humanist William Francis Whitman Jr. (1914–2007), horticulturist Whitman Sisters, African-American...
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his Chicago Follies company (which included his wife Gertie); the Whitman Sisters and their Company; musicians Fletcher Henderson, Fats Waller, Louis...
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1901 of pneumonia. Whitman had a wife named Caddie and four daughters. The daughters formed the vaudeville troupe The Whitman Sisters, who performed together...
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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...
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autonomy and better conditions, which included Sisieretta Jones and the Whitman sisters; these women supported each other and interacted socially at society...
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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...
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investor and philanthropist Martin J. Whitman. He also has a sister, Tony Award-winning producer Barbara Whitman. He graduated from Yale University with...
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(born 1949), founder of Essie Cosmetics, Ltd Essie Whitman (c. 1887 – 1963), one of the Whitman Sisters black vaudeville stars Essie Hollis (born 1955),...
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The Whitman massacre (also known as the Whitman killings and the Tragedy at Waiilatpu) refers to the killing of American missionaries Marcus and Narcissa...
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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...
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implies exhaustion. Lane, Arabic -English Lexicon (1863) p. 1619. "The Whitman Sisters: Why We May Never Silence Them" Floyd Jr., Samuel (2002). "Ring Shout...
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Ottis Dewey "Slim" Whitman Jr. (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013) was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his yodeling...
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Dragula" Season Five". The Georgia Voice. Retrieved 23 December 2023. "Whitman Sisters (biography)", Library of Congress Vaudeville old & new: an encyclopedia...
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actor (d. 1976) Bill Walker, actor (d. 1992) Spencer Bell, actor Whitman Sisters, actresses Ira Aldridge, actor Amanda and Samuel Chambers, early members...
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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...
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Florence Cole Talbert Eva Taylor Big Mama Thornton Sippie Wallace Whitman Sisters Edith Wilson Lena Wilson Etta Moten Barnett Louise Beavers Gladys Bentley...
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I Sing the Body Electric (redirect from I Sing the Body Electric (Whitman))
"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...
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dancer/choreographer Aida Overton Walker, "The Queen of Cakewalk", and The Whitman Sisters, who ran a touring company considered 'an incubator for Black Talent...
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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...
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most notably performing for a week in June 1928. The Whitman Sisters consisted of four sisters (Essie, Mabel, Alberta, and Baby Alice) who performed...
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Leaves of Grass (redirect from Excelsior (Whitman))
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...
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Albery Allson Whitman, minister, poet, orator known as "Poet Laureate of the Negro Race". Also father to the Whitman Sisters. Whitman Sisters Alberta, Essie...
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Grear's Original Midnite Ramblers, the Richard Cheatham Orchestra, the Whitman Sisters, Honey Brown's Orchestra, Henry P. McClane's Society Orchestra and...
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