American tap dancer and actor, the best known and most highly paid African American entertainer
Bill robinson
A popular figure in both the black and white entertainment worlds of his era, he is best known today for his dancing
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one of the earliest African American performers to go solo.
a headliner in Broadway shows.
the first African American to appear in a Hollywood film in an interracial dance team.
the first African American to headline a mixed-race Broadway production.
Bo jangles
He went through a lot of racism but that didn't stop him. That was just an everyday obstacle he went through.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
Bill Robinson "bo jangles"
He was born (May 25, 1878 – died November 25, 1949)
