Ernest Hogan
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Ernest Hogan was the first Black American entertainer to produce and star in a Broadway show, The Oyster Man in 1907, and helped to popularize the musical genre of ragtime.
Ernest Hogan
Sheet music to "All Coons Look Alike to Me."
Cover for "La Pas Ma La" sheet music (1895). Words and Music by Ernest Hogan
"Las Pas Ma La" sheet music
Mattie Wilkes
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Mattie Vera Wilkes was an African American theater and film actress who appeared in vaudeville shows and films from the 1890s through the 1920s. Beginning as the prima donna for the Williams & Walker
Ernest Hogan
…blackface as he sometimes did later in his career. Ernest Hogan was believed to have been married twice. He was first wed to a youthful singer named Mattie Wilkes. She was a popular soprano performing in vaudeville shows with him; they married around 1901 or 1902. Hogan was later reportedly married to a woman…
Poster of Mattie Wilkes circa 1899