Slappy White Advertisement Alongside CORE Activism Report in Miami Times

Slappy White Advertisement Alongside CORE Activism Report in Miami Times

Slappy White

The Circuit and politics were linked in African American communities and existed side-by-side on newspaper pages. Comedians performed regularly on the Circuit. This ad promotes comedian Slappy White, who later appeared on Sanford and Son and other television shows. White performed alongside club singer Phyllis Branch in this weeklong booking at the Hampton House Club in Brownsville. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, musicians Cannonball Adderley and LaVern Baker, and other African American celebrities stayed at the Hampton House Motel. The Motel’s jazz club was a popular stop on the Circuit.

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00028321/00683/16j

University of Florida Digital Collections

January 5, 1963

University of Florida Digital Collections

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Miami, Florida