Stretch Johnson
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Stretch Johnson
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Howard Eugene "Stretch" Johnson was an American tap dancer and social activist. In 1936, he joined his brother Bobby and his sister, Winnie, one of the featured dancers at the Cotton Club, to form an act called the Three Johnsons, which was featured in New Faces of 1936 and the Duke Ellington Revue of 1937 at the Apollo Theater. He later acted in a Harlem production of Clifford Odets play Waiting for Lefty. A member of the N.A.A.C.P. since he was 15, he served in the 92nd 'Buffalo' Division in W
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