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It is believed that the African American dance form, the Cake Walk, originated on plantations in the deep South.
In the era before emancipation the best dancers would form a Cake Walk line and tradition states the winner often received a cake..thus the popular term, " That really takes the cake."
Atlantic City- and Young's Pier - was the first resort to feature Cake Walk dancers with African Americans as a popular act for tourists. Pictured here is a troupe posing on the pier circa 1910.
In later years white dancers would use black face to imitate the dancers but the genuine art form was an African American original. I would have loved to see this act in person.
Emil
( from the collection of Joseph Milligan III )
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