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Eddie Leonard (October 17, 1870 [citation needed] – July 28, 1941), born Lemuel Gordon Toney, was a vaudevillian and a man considered the greatest American minstrel of his day, at a time when minstrel shows were an acceptable and popular mainstream entertainment in the United States. [1]
Charles Barney Hicks (died 1902) was an American advance man, manager, performer, and owner of blackface minstrel troupes composed of African-American performers. Hicks himself was a minstrel performer who could sing and play challenging roles such as the minstrel-show interlocutor or endmen. However, he was most interested in the business side ...
Lew Dockstader (born George Alfred Clapp; August 7, 1856 – October 26, 1924) was an American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star, best known as a blackface minstrel show performer. Dockstader performed as a solo act and in his own popular minstrel troupe.
Many of these harmful characters were created for minstrel shows, the most popular form of entertainment in the United States in the 1800s. "Minstrel show entertainment was a kind of precursor to ...
Captain 11 is an after-school children's program for over 41 years on KELO-TV, [1] broadcast on channel 11 from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.Station weatherman Dave Dedrick [2] donned a yellow-trimmed blue pilot uniform with hat and daily (later weekly as cable TV began to cut into its ratings) became the jolly host of the show.
The Black and White Minstrel Show is a British light entertainment show on BBC prime-time television that ran from 1958 to 1978. The weekly variety show presented traditional American minstrel and country songs, as well as show tunes and music hall numbers, lavishly costumed and often presented with cast members in blackface .
The Minstrel Show is the second studio album by hip hop trio Little Brother, released on September 13, 2005. [1] It followed the critical success of their 2003 debut, The Listening . The album was highly anticipated and touted as a probable breakthrough for the group, even before its release.
Thomas Dartmouth Rice (May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860) was an American performer and playwright who performed in blackface and used African American vernacular speech, song and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. He is considered the "father of American minstrelsy".