Charlotte Louise Johnson, known as Lottie Williams and Lottie Thompson, was an American actress, singer, and dancer. A pioneering performer in African-American musical theater, she is best remembered
From left to right, performers Hattie McIntosh, George Walker, Aida Overton Walker, Bert Williams, and Lottie Williams performing the cake walk dance in the 1903 Broadway production of In Dahomey.
Photograph of Lottie Williams published in The New York Age in 1908, the year of her retirement.
Aida Overton Walker
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Aida Overton Walker, also billed as Ada Overton Walker and as "The Queen of the Cakewalk", was an American vaudeville performer, actress, singer, dancer, choreographer, and wife of vaudevillian George
Walker in 1907
