Butterbeans and Susie
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Butterbeans and Susie were an American comedy duo comprising Jodie Edwards and Susie Edwards. They married in 1917, and performed together until the early 1960s. Their act, a combination of marital qu
Butterbeans (right) and Susie (left)
Cakewalk
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The cakewalk was a dance developed from the "prize walks" held in the mid-19th century, generally at get-togethers of African Americans on plantations before and after emancipation in the Southern Uni
George Walker, Aida Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African Americans, In Dahomey.
Painting from 1913
1915 sheet music cover (late for cakewalk music): "Ebony Echoes: A Good Old-Fashioned Cake-Walk" by Dan Walker. New York, NY: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.
Cakewalk dance, 1896