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    Aida Overton Walker (February 14, 1880 – October 11, 1914), also billed as Ada Overton Walker and as "The Queen of the Cakewalk", was an American vaudeville...
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    politician Aida Turturro (born 1962), American actress Aida Vedishcheva (born 1941), Soviet and Russian singer of Jewish descent Aida Overton Walker (1880–1914)...
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    song-and-dance man George Walker and Bert Williams met in San Francisco in 1893. George Walker married Ada Overton in 1899. Ada Overton Walker was known as one...
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    George Walker, Aida Overton Walker, and Bert Williams link arms and dance the cakewalk in the first Broadway musical to be written and performed by African...
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    skills in both ballet and tap-dancing. Dancer and choreographer Aida Overton Walker was known as the Vaudeville Queen of the Cakewalk. The black musicians...
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    p. 151-152, p. 350-351 Sotiropoulos, p. 186 Willis, Chapter 4: Aida Overton Walker: Queen of the Cakewalk Peterson Jr., p. 188 Dietz, 285-286 Tafoya...
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    performances. Bert Williams (as Shylock Homestead), George Walker (as Rareback Pinkerton) and Aida Overton Walker (as Rosetta Lightfoot) reprised their roles. Based...
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  • Anita Bush Olga Burgoyne Ida Forsyne Aurora Greely Norma Miller Aida Overton Walker Elisabeth Welch Gladys Bentley May Alix Marian Anderson Lil Hardin...
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  • Collection, Agyepong channels the American vaudeville performer Aida Overton Walker, by posing for a series of fake postcards. The work addresses physical...
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  • 1910 by the Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Company and used by Aida Overton Walker in His Honor the Barber, an African-American road show. According...
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