Nickelodeons and Black vaudeville : the forgotten story of Amanda Thorp /
"Amanda Thorp was a theater entrepreneur influential in bringing Black vaudeville and early movie theaters to Richmond, Virginia, and more widely to the southeastern US. Thorp, a White woman, opened theaters and nickelodeons exclusively for Black patrons during a period of entrenched segregatio...
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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- It's okay for a girl to be smart
- Meet me at the Wonderland
- The best place she could find
- The cost of success
- Black vaudeville at the Hippodrome
- Life happens
- The theater beautiful.