Edith Wilson

Edith Wilson - He May Be Your Man ... but He Comes to See Me Sometimes (1973)

Source: Something Else!
May 26, 2011

A pioneer as just the third African American woman to make a phonograph recording back in the 1920s, Edith Wilson later fell on hard times—and was reduced to appearing through the mid-'60s (and quite anonymously) in the first Aunt Jemima TV commercials. By the early 1970s, few remembered Wilson, an early star of black theater who in 1921 replaced Mamie Smith in Perry Bradford's musical revue “Put And Take." Fewer still remember her today, despite a separate stint in a ...
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