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Master Juba was an African-American dancer active in the 1840s. He was one of the first black performers in the United States to play onstage for white audiences
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Juba became well enough known that he received top billing in a minstrel show in 1845.
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American tap dancer, actor, and singer, the best known and the most highly paid African-American entertainer in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
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American tap dancer, vaudevillian, movie actor, and television performer.
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Ford Lee "Buck" Washington was an American vaudeville performer, pianist, and singer
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Bucks and Bubbles became a DUO
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American choreographer, dancer and actor.
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American dancer specializing in tap.
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In 1922, they performed at New York's Palace Theater, the nation's top vaudeville venue. They broke color barriers by headlining the white vaudeville circuit across the U.S. and were featured in several Broadway revues in the 1920s and 1930s.
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George Balanchine invites Nicholas brothers to appear in Babes in Arms
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American dancer, actor, choreographer, and singer.
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American tap dancer, actor, and choreographer.
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Savion Glover appears on PBS show The Tap Dance Kid
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National Tap Dance Day falls on May 25 every year, and is a celebration of tap dance as an American art form.
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American television sitcom that aired on CBS
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