Bert Williams and Black Performance Culture

Bert Williams and Odessa Warren Grey in Lime Kiln Club Field Day (dir. Edwin Middleton, T. Hays Hunter, 1913), film stills. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art.

Sam Lucas, 1901, sheet music cover. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art.

Bert Williams (bottom) and George Walker in a publicity photograph promoting In Dahomey, ca. 1903. Courtesy Museum of Modern Art.