Jeni LeGon
Jennie May Ligon was born in Chicago, 1916, and became one of the first African American women in tap dance to develop […]
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Bunny Briggs
Bernard “Bunny” Briggs was born in 1922 in the heart of Harlem, NYC: “a swingin’ area, I’ll tell you that.” According to […]
Gregory Hines
Gregory Oliver Hines was born in New York in 1946. The family lived on Sugar Hill, home of black entertainers, on Harlem’s […]
Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson
Born Luther Robinson in Richmond, Virginia, 1878, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson is widely recognised as the Grandfather of tap dance as we know […]