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The Redd Foxx encyclopedia of Black humor / Redd Foxx [i.e. J.E. Sanford] and Norma Miller.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foxx, Redd, 1922-1991, author.
- Miller, Norma, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American entertainers.
- African American comedians.
- Comedians--United States.
- Comedians.
- African American wit and humor.
- United States.
- African American wit and humor--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Humor.
- African Americans.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena, Calif. : Ward Ritchie Press, [1977]
- Contents:
- Plantation shows
- Minstrel shows
- Harlem : 1900
- Williams & Walker
- Bert Williams
- Miller & Lyles
- TOBA circuit ; Sammy Davis, Jr. ; Spo-De-O-Dee
- The screen's first coon
- The Apollo Theatre
- Timmie Rogers
- Bardu Ali remembers
- Scatman Crothers
- Leonard Reed
- The contemporaries
- George Kirby
- Nipsey Russell
- Slappy White
- Dick Gregory
- Godfrey Cambridge
- Bill Cosby
- Flip Wilson
- Richard Pryor
- Comedians of the seventies
- The black woman in comedy
- Redd Foxx
- Black language.
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©1977 by Redd Foxx and Norma Miller."--verso of title page
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Foxx, Redd, 1922-1991. Redd Foxx encyclopedia of Black humor.
- ISBN:
- 0378083023
- 9780378083027
- OCLC:
- 3430216
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