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  2. Amos 'n' Andy - Wikipedia

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    Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden), Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), and ...

  3. Ernestine Wade - Wikipedia

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    Born in Jackson, Mississippi, Wade was trained as a singer and organist. Her family had a strong connection to the theater. Her mother, Hazel Wade, worked in vaudeville as a performer, while her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Johnson, worked for the Lincoln Theater in Baltimore, Maryland.

  4. Tim Moore (comedian) - Wikipedia

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    Moore was born Harry Roscoe Moore in Rock Island, Illinois, one of 13 children of Harry and Cynthia Moore. [1] [2] His father was a night watchman at a brewery.Tim Moore dropped out of grammar school to work at odd jobs in town and even danced for pennies in the streets with his friend, Romeo Washburn.

  5. Spencer Williams Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Spencer Williams (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an American actor and filmmaker. He portrayed Andy on TV's The Amos 'n' Andy Show and directed films including the 1941 race film The Blood of Jesus.

  6. Charles Correll - Wikipedia

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    Charles James Correll (February 2, 1890 – September 26, 1972) was an American radio comedian, actor and writer, known best for his work in the radio series Amos 'n' Andy with Freeman Gosden.

  7. Ruby Dandridge - Wikipedia

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    Ruby Jean Dandridge (née Butler; March 3, 1900 [1] – October 17, 1987) was an American actress from the early 1900s through to the late 1950s. Dandridge is best known for her role on the radio show Amos 'n Andy, in which she played Sadie Blake and Harriet Crawford, and on radio's Judy Canova Show, in which she played Geranium.

  8. Nick Stewart - Wikipedia

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    Nick Stewart was born on March 15, 1910, in Harlem, New York City, to Joseph (1888–1976) and Eva Stewart, who were recent immigrants from Barbados, British West Indies.

  9. Alvin Childress - Wikipedia

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    Childress as Jacques in the Federal Theatre Project production of Haiti at the Lafayette Theatre (1938). Alvin Childress was born in Meridian, Mississippi.He was educated at Rust College, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology.

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