Chronicling Resistance Activist-Curator Fellow Germaine Ingram quite literally lent her voice to her section of the Chronicling Exhibition by narrating the labels that would normally be found on the wall. Take a deep dive into the life of extraordinary tap dancer Louise Madison and the history that led her and other Black women of her era to refuse servitude and redefine themselves and their boundaries on the popular stage.

"Nelly Scott" (in West Gallery 1, references item 24.)

25. Listen Little Girl Before You Come to New York, 1938

19 and 24. Programme and Ad postcard for Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1935, Coliseum of London

22-23. Advertisements for Dr. Fred Palmer’s Skin Whitener in The Inter-State Tattler, c. 1925

17. Lobby Photo of Louise Madison, with inscription to Ludie Jones (1934)

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