Camille F Forbes: 1 book
Introducing Bert Williams
Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
According to critics of his time, Bert Williams was the Greatest Comedian on the American Stage.” A black Bahamian immigrant, Williams made his start as a barker advertising the rough-and-tumble medicine shows” that dotted the Wild West at the end of the nineteenth century. Not long after...
