Painting of Butler "String Bean" May and Baby Franklin Seals by Craig Legg, 2023. #267 in Craig Legg's Alabama Roots Music Trading Card Series. Courtesy Craig Legg.
Newspaper advertisement for Butterbeans and Susie at the Frolic Theater's Midnight Review.Birmingham News, January 25, 1925.This series of attractions, which invited white visitors into Black Birmingham's leading vaudeville theater to witness some of…
Newspaper advertisement for Ida Cox at the Frolic Theater's Midnight Review.Birmingham News, December 19, 1924.This series of attractions, which invited white visitors into Black Birmingham's leading vaudeville theater to witness some of the nation's…