The Rediscovery of George Nash Walker : The Price of Black Stardom in Jim Crow America.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, Daniel E.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

The first biography of George Walker, a uniquely Afro-American tale of innovation and triumph despite the odds; the story of an underdog with a bite!The Rediscovery of George "Nash" Walker is the first biography dedicated to the life and cultural contributions of this actor, writer, and producer who revolutionized Black American theatre during.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

The folks who were vitally helpful along the way:

Introduction

A Word on Usage

Part One: The Start

1. Growing Up Radical: 1865 to 1891

Lawrence

The Ways of Minstrelsy

Adolescence

Quack College

2. Partners in Double Consciousness: 1892 to 1893

Enter Bert Williams

A Fortuitous Fair

Ragtime: The "New" Music

"Sham" Dahomeyans and "Real Coons"

3. Go East, Young Men: 1895 to 1896

Road to Los Angeles

"Dora Dean" Is Obscene

Goin' to Chicago

Road to New York

4. Honing the Act: 1896 to 1897

"All Coons Look Alike"

Cake Walk: The "New" Dance

Dusky Dukes of Manhattan

The London Flop

Part Two: The Stride

5. Cake Walks and Culture: 1898

Cake Walk Double Crossover

Enter Ada Overton

Clorindy

6. As I See You on the Stage: 1899 to 1900

A Lucky Coon

The Policy Players

Hotel Marshall, a Black and Tan Oasis

7. "Only Just Butting In": 1900 to 1902

"Get Ernest Hogan and Williams and Walker and Cole and Johnson"

Sons of Ham

A Subversive Path Rarely Taken

The Rise of Russell

Rocky Road to First Class

Back Home Again in Lawrence

8. Broadway, the Hard Way: 1902 to 1903

Summertime Row

In Dahomey

The Colored Entrance to the Great White Way

Aida Outshines the Four Hundred

9. "I Needn't Be Scared of No King": 1903 to 1904

Gone East to the West End

Buckingham Palace

Chance Encounter

On the Road in a Foreign Land

10. The Royal Strut: 1904 to 1905

Triumphant Return

Abyssinian Summer

Part Three: The Struggle

11. The Abyss: 1905 to 1907

Give Us the Strength to Lift As We Climb

"Nobody"

Emancipation

Windy City Breakdown

New Season, Same Trouble

12. "Bon Bon Buddy": 1907 to 1908

Turning the Corner.

Big Show in Lawrence

Bandanna Land

13. Who's Leavin' Who? 1908 to 1909

Feelin' Froggish

A Vision of Salome on the Road to Dayton

Return of the Favorite Son

Exit Ernest Hogan

14. You Never Miss the Water … : 1909 to 1911

The Big Smokescreen

Aida's Red Moon

Integration's Folly

"See That His Grave's Kept Green"

15. … 'Til the Well Runs Dry

The Irreplicable Bob Cole

Aida's Final "Shine"

Gotham Attucks

W-H-C Theatre

Bert Williams

Jerry Nashville Walker

Alice Myers

The Frogs

Sylvester Russell

Black Theatre After Williams and Walker

Appendix

Second Company

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0317-4

OCLC:

1531949197