This post is one of a series honoring Black History Month. Johnson and Dean were a husband-wife dance team who bridged the era between minstrelsy and vaudeville, and are best known for developing and popularizing the dance known as the cakewalk. It all began with Charlie Johnson (born around the end of the Civil War), [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:05AM on February 3, 2012