Singer and dancer, Maude Russell Rutherford was billed the 'Slim Princess, during the glory days of black theater in the 1920s. She has been credited with introducing the Charleston on Broadway. Rutherford was born in Texas to a black mother, Margaret Lee, and a white father, William McCann. While a teenager, Rutherford worked as a […]
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