Imagining Louise: Imagining the Life, Career and Times of Tap Dance Legend Louise Madison
Virtual - YouTube
Chronicling Resistance Fellow Germaine Ingram hangs out with tap/jazz scholar Hank Smith for an on-line, one-to-one conversation about mysterious Philadelphia tap legend Louise Madison and how she, among other Black women of the early to mid 20th Century, used the popular stage to resist limitations of race and gender.
Tune in to "Hangin' with Hank," Sunday, February 13, 2022, 6:00 p.m. EST, for the YouTube premier.
Chronicling Resistance is an archival initiative amplifying historically marginalized people and stories within special collections libraries and is supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and the Philadelphia Area Consortium for Special Collections Libraries.
Virtual - YouTube