Bert Williams

Bert Williams () adalah seorang entertainer Amerika Serikat kelahiran Bahama, salah satu entertainer era Vaudeville dan salah satu pelawak paling populer pada masanya. Ia dikenal sebagai pria kulit hitam pertama yang memainkan peran utama dalam sebuah film: Darktown Jubilee pada 1914.Blacks in Films, Jim Pines, 

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan
 Brooks, Tim, Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890–1919, 105–148. University of Illinois Press, 2004.
 Charters, Ann, Nobody: The Story of Bert Williams. Macmillan, 1970. 
 Chude-Sokei, Louis, The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora. Duke University Press, 2006. 
 Forbes, Camille F. Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star. Basic Civitas, 2008. 
 Phillips, Caryl, Dancing in the Dark, a novel about Bert Williams. Knopf, 2005. .
 Rowland, Mabel, Bert Williams: Son of Laughter. English Crafters, 1923. Reprinted in 1969 by Negro Universities Press. 
 Smith, Eric Ledell Bert Williams : A Biography of the Pioneer Black Comedian, McFarland & Co., 1992. 

Pranala luar



 "Natural Born Gambler," one of the few surviving film records of Williams' act
 Songwriters Hall of Fame, biography of Bert Williams
 DuBois Learning Center, biography
 Bert Williams and George Walker
 Williams and Walker
 Bert Williams cylinder recordings, from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
 Bert Williams recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.
 Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams, 1899–1981 [bulk 1959–1962], held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library



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