Sherman H. Dudley
Businessperson, Deceased Person
1872 – 1940
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Who was Sherman H. Dudley?
Sherman Houston Dudley was an African-American vaudeville performer and theatre entrepreneur. He gained notability in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as an individual performer, a composer of ragtime songs, and as a member and later owner of various minstrel shows including the Smart Set. Dudley is also notable as one of the first African Americans to combine business with theater, by starting a black theater circuit, in which theaters were owned or operated by African Americans and provided entertainment by and for African Americans.
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- Born
- 1872
United States of America - Also known as
- Sherman Dudley
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 1, 1940
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on July 23, 2013
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