Irving Sayles was a member of one of the largest minstrel companies in the midwestern United States, Haverly's minstrels. Haverly was a white business owner who operated one of the largest Black companies of minstrels. Sayles was born in Quincy, Illinois around 1872 to Josephus Sayles and Melinda Wilson. Quincy was situated just across the […]
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