Harlem Renaissance Men: Johnny Hudgins and Jack Johnson - Part 1 from zora johnson Watch Video
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⏲ Duration: 44 min 44 sec ✓ Published: 30-Jan-2021
Description: Join Robert O’Meally for the first part of this two-part series exploring the lives of Harlem Renaissance trailblazers.nnPART 1 | Harlem Renaissance Man: Johnny HudginsnnJohnny Hudgins will seem an unlikely candidate for Harlem Renaissance Man honors. Blackface comic dancer, with absurd white-paint grin glowing against tar-blackened face, here’s a pantomimist almost completely lost to cultural history. And yet there he was! At the height of his fame a showstopper at Harlem’s Lafayette Thea