King Rastus Brown at Madison Square Garden Brown, King Rastus performer Challenge Dance 1910 Jean and Marshall Stearns write: "More than one dancer remembers hearing about a buck-dancing contest held in the old Madison Square Garden around 1910, which King Rastus Brown won. If so, it was the climax of his career, for except among Negro dancers and show folk, Brown is unknown." Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Stearns, Marshall and Jean Stearns: Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance. New York: Macmillan (1968). Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.1347