Two Important Minstrel Performers
Al Jolson. Born Asa Yoelson in Lithuania, as early as 1884Immigrated in the US in 1890After his mother died in 1895, he became immersed in American CultureJoined a circus in 1899, then toured in vaudeville and burlesque in 1901First performed in blackface in 1904Jolson was not a racist, and oft
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