Sam Lucas
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title:
Sam Lucas
text:
Sam Lucas was an American actor, comedian, singer and songwriter. His birth year has also been reported as 1839, 1841, 1848 and 1850. Lucas' career began in blackface minstrelsy, but he later became one of the first African Americans to branch out into more serious drama, with roles in seminal works such as The Creole Show and A Trip to Coontown. He was the first black man to portray the role of Uncle Tom on both stage and screen. James Weldon Johnson described him as the "Grand Old Man of the N
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American entertainer (d. 1916)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Lucas
date created:
2005-10-20T00:28:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T17:28:44Z
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