Originally posted in 2011. Edith Wilson (born Edith Goodall this day in 1896 and not to be confused with the First Lady during World War I) was a blues and jazz singer who got her start in black vaudeville and Chicago night clubs before moving up to all-black Broadway revues in the 1920s. (She replaced Mamie Smith in a show called Put and […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:15AM on September 2, 2013