African American Entertainers in Australia and New Zealand: A History, 1788-1941

Contents

• 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