Bill Egan is a Canberra (Australia) based independent researcher with a lifelong interest in jazz and African American culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

¿1.¿In the Beginning

¿2.¿African American Minstrels Arrive: Dueling Georgians

¿3.¿The Fisk Jubilee Singers

¿4.¿Further Adventures of the Jubilee Singers

¿5.¿Charles B. Hicks Returns

¿6.¿Orpheus McAdoo and the Return of the Fisks

¿7.¿The Tivoli Era Starts

¿8.¿The Return of Orpheus McAdoo and a Rival

¿9.¿McAdoo and Curtis: The Battle Begins

10.¿McAdoo Reigns Again

11.¿Eva Taylor (Irene Gibbons) and Josephine Gassman

12.¿This Sporting Life: Major Taylor

13.¿George Sorlie and Cassie Walmer

14.¿Big, Bad Jack Johnson

15.¿The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Billy Kersands (1912)

16.¿Throw the Switch to Vaudeville

17.¿The Jazz Age (1923-1925)

18.¿The Jazz Age (1926-1927)

19.¿Sonny Clay's Colored Idea (White Australia's Darkest Hour)

20.¿The Post-Clay Lean Years (1928-1934)

21.¿The Norman Thomas Quintette and Ulysses S. Thompson

22.¿Nina Mae McKinney

23.¿1937: The Harmony Kings and Bob Parrish

24.¿1938: Chris Gill, the Edwards Sisters, Chuck Richards and Peg Leg Bates

25.¿Frankie Manning and the Lindy Hoppers (1938-1939)

26.¿1939: Radcliffe and Rodgers, Ada Brown, the Dancing Chefs, Chuck and Chuckles, the Mills Brothers

27.¿Epilogue: 1940-1941 and After

Appendix 1: African American Boxers Pre-World War I

Appendix 2: African American Boxers Post-World War I

Appendix 3: The Later Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1902-1936

Appendix 4: Miscellanea

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index