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Bert Williams was born in the Bahamas. At a young age, he immigrated with his parents to the United States. By his late teens, he made his way to California and joined different West Coast minstrel ...

WHEN RIDING THE BUS to the University of Texas campus a few years back, I became suddenly conscious of the fact that the cover of the book in my hands depicted a stark white fist clutching a hammer ...

When Bert Williams started his stage career in the late 19th century, the opportunities for black actors were limited to vaudeville and minstrel shows. Around 1920, that began to change. Williams ...

Bert Williams had one of the strangest careers in the history of American show business. He was a Broadway star in the early 20th century, headlining in one of the first African-American musicals, In ...