Cheryl M Willis: 1 book
Tappin' at the Apollo
The African American Female Tap Dance Duo Salt and Pepper
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina “Salt” Evelyn and Jewel “Pepper” Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 1940s, they were Black show business headliners, playing Harlem’s Apollo Theater with the likes of Count Basie, Fats Waller and Earl “Fatha”...
