Bringing Back Bert Williams, the First Black Superstar by Jonathan Mandell

Bert Williams was, according to his friend W.C. Fields, "the funniest man I ever saw and the saddest man I ever knew." Williams was probably the most popular African-American entertainer at the turn of the twentieth century, a man of many talents, and many firsts " a major star in vaudeville and on Broadway,  an early...

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