The Pickaninny Dance from the “Passing Show”
May 16 1894
•0h 1m
•Documentary
“A scene representing Southern plantation life before the war. A jig and a breakdown by three colored boys.”
Cast
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Denny Tolliver
Walter Wilkins
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