- Description
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Six Negro Youngsters are in Ted Mack's finals [challenge dance]
- Title
- Six Negro Youngsters are in Ted Mack's finals [Challenge Dance]
- Published/Created
- 1954-05-29
- Genre
- Challenge Dance
- Abstract
- Chicago Defender 6/15/1954 in a story coming out of NYC reports that six "colored youngsters are currently in the runoff of the Original Amateur Hour's annual search for a national champion last Saturday (May 29). the Hamboners Quartet from Lancaster, PA and a four-year old drummer boy Burton Hurley. Hurley, a three-time winner is said to have been tapping out rhythms on the drums at ten months of age.
- Source
- Sampson, Henry T.: Swingin' On the Etherwaves: A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television Broadcasting, 1925-1955. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press (2005).
Last Updated: 12-16-2015