Today is the birthday of Melvin “Slappy” White (1921-1995). Comedian White was a little too young to have come up through black vaudeville, but he did spend much  time in its successor, the chitlin’ circuit. A native of Baltimore, he started out in show business as a child tap dancing on streetcorners for change, and […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:38PM on September 20, 2014