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The Prince and the Actress: When Florence Met George
© E. Azalia Hackley Collection/Detroit Public Library
Though African American performers dazzled British society and its royals since the days of Walker and Williams(who brought their minstrel revues to English shores in the early 1900s), and performers like Aida Overton Walker, Sissieretta Jones, and others were viewed as the epitome of Black glamour–there was something different about Florence…
