1896/01/25 |
Florence Winfrey is born to Nellie Simon Winfrey and John Winfrey in Washington, DC. |
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1910/00/00 |
Florence Mills' home til 1927. In December 1976, the NP Service mistakenly listed 220 W 135th as the Mills home, but she probably lived at 220 W 133th. Either way, both buildings have been lost and 220 W 135th was delisted from the registry 16 January 20. |
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Central Harlem |
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1921/08/00 |
Florence Mills stars in 'Shuffle Along' at the Cort 63rd Street Theatre, 22 W 63rd St, NYC (razed), August 1921 to May 1922. |
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1922/07/22 |
Dancer, Ulysses "Slow Kid" Thompson and his wife, Florence Mills, star in Lew Leslie's stage show "Plantation Revue" at the Plantation Club, NYC. |
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Sam Salvin's Plantation Club site |
New York City |
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1923/03/00 |
Charles B Cochran presents Florence Mills in 'Dover Street to Dixie' at The London Pavilion. There were rumors that an anti-colored demonstration are planned, but after one song, London is at her feet. |
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The London Pavilion |
London |
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1924/06/27 |
Florence Mills headlines at the Palace Theatre, the nation's most prestigious booking in vaudeville. |
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Palace Theatre |
New York City |
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1926/00/00 |
Lew Leslie's "Blackbirds of 1926" starring Florence Mills, Johnny Hudgins and Edith Wilson premieres at The Harlem Alhambra in Harlem, NYC. |
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The Harlem Alhambra, NYC |
New York City |
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1926/01/24 |
Florence Mills sings "Levee Land", four jazz-based songs composed for the occasion by William Grant Still, conducted by Eugene Goossens. |
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Aeolian Building |
New York City |
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1926/05/28 |
"Blackbirds of 1926" opens at a private midnight VIP party starring Florence Mills, Johnny Hudgins, the Three Eddies and the Plantation Jazz Orchestra conducted by Shrimp Jones with Johnny Dunn. It starts a half hour late waiting for Josephine Baker. |
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Espace Cardin, Paris |
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1926/09/00 |
Florence Mills becomes an international star when Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1926 runs for 276 performances in London. Edward, Prince of Wales, admits to the press that he has seen Blackbirds 11 times. |
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The London Pavilion |
London |
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1927/11/01 |
Florence Mills dies of 'paralytic ileus', a complication from an operation for pelvic tuberculosis at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City. |
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1927/11/02 |
Harlem pays tribute to Florence Mills, negro comedienne, who died on Tuesday. All day negroes file through the funeral chapel of A Adolph Howell at 2332 Seventh Avenue to view her body. - NY Times |
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St Nicholas Historic District |
New York City |
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Funeral of Florence Mills |
1927/11/06 |
As Florence Mills' coffin moves toward the AME Zion alter, strains of Chopin's "Requiem" give way to his "Funeral march". Honorary pall bearers include Ethel Waters, Cora Green and Lottie Gee. |
In Memoriam |
Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor |
Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, NYC |
New York City |
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Funeral of Florence Mills |
1927/11/06 |
While an estimated crowd between 150,000 to 200,000 lined the streets, Florence Mills' cortege moves through Harlem to her burial at Woodlawn Cemetery, in The Bronx, New York. |
In Memoriam |
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Woodlawn Cemetery |
New York City |
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Funeral of Florence Mills |