Rabbit Foot Minstrels
In 1900, Patrick Henry Chappelle, an African American from Florida, produced a musical comedy called “A Rabbit’s Foot,” and by 1902 his Rabbit’s Foot Company
Author: Tufara Waller Muhhamad
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Tufara Waller Muhammad
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