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Josephine Baker and unidentified banjo player in Chocolate Dandies, White Studios, NYPL digital collection, c. 1924

Photograph from Sissle and Blake's musical production, Chocolate Dandies

"My Own Manilla Sue" sheet music, Witmark and Sons, NYPL Digital Collections, 1899

Sheet music from 1889 showing blackface minstrel Earl Way in both his off-stage and blackface personas.

Alberta Hunter on having to wear "Aunt Jemimy" Clothes, CBS News, 1978

Alberta Hunter describes the indignity of being limited to stereotyped roles on stage.