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- Bill_Robinson abstract "Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson (May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949) was an American tap dancer and actor, the best known and most highly paid African American entertainer in the first half of the twentieth century. His long career mirrored changes in American entertainment tastes and technology, starting in the age of minstrel shows, moving to vaudeville, Broadway, the recording industry, Hollywood radio, and television. According to dance critic Marshall Stearns, \"Robinson's contribution to tap dance is exact and specific. He brought it up on its toes, dancing upright and swinging\", giving tap a \"…hitherto-unknown lightness and presence.\" His signature routine was the stair dance, in which Robinson would tap up and down a set of stairs in a rhythmically complex sequence of steps, a routine that he unsuccessfully attempted to patent. Robinson is also credited with having introduced a new word, copacetic, into popular culture, via his repeated use of it in vaudeville and radio appearances.A popular figure in both the black and white entertainment worlds of his era, he is best known today for his dancing with Shirley Temple in a series of films during the 1930s, and for starring in the musical Stormy Weather (1943), loosely based on Robinson's own life, and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Robinson used his popularity to challenge and overcome numerous racial barriers, including becoming the following: one of the first minstrel and vaudeville performers to appear without the use of blackface makeup one of the earliest African American performers to go solo, overcoming vaudeville's two colored rule a headliner in the first African-American Broadway show, Blackbirds of 1928 the first African American to appear in a Hollywood film in an interracial dance team (with Temple in The Little Colonel) the first African American to headline a mixed-race Broadway productionDuring his lifetime and afterwards, Robinson also came under heavy criticism for his participation in and tacit acceptance of racial stereotypes of the era, with critics calling him an Uncle Tom figure. Robinson resented such criticism, and his biographers suggested that critics were at best incomplete in making such a characterization, especially given his efforts to overcome the racial prejudice of his era. In his public life Robinson led efforts to: persuade the Dallas police department to hire its first African American policemen lobby President Roosevelt during World War II for more equitable treatment of African American soldiers stage the first integrated public event in Miami, a fundraiser which, with the permission of the mayor, was attended by both black and white city residentsDespite being the highest-paid black performer of the era, Robinson died penniless in 1949, and his funeral was paid for by longtime friend Ed Sullivan. Robinson is remembered for the support he gave to fellow performers, including Fred Astaire, Lena Horne, Jesse Owens, and the Nicholas brothers.Sammy Davis, Jr. and Ann Miller credited him as a teacher and mentor, and Miller credits him with having \"changed the course of my life.\" Gregory Hines produced and starred in a biographical movie about Robinson for which he won the NAACP Best actor Award. In 1989, the U.S. Congress designated May 25, Robinson's birthday, as National Tap Dance Day.".
- Bill_Robinson activeYearsEndYear "1943".
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- Bill_Robinson birthName "Luther Robinson".
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- Bill_Robinson deathDate "1949-11-25".
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