Information Sheet

 

 

R         Central Labor Union (Springfield, Mo.).

953                  Minstrel program, 1939.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a program for the “Central Labor Union’s Minstrel and Revue,” held at the Shrine Mosque in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri, on 3 April 1939.  Produced and directed by Emmett McAtee and featuring Lasses White Minstrels, the show included 100 entertainers and featured minstrel, vaudeville, and night club scenes.

 

The Central Labor Union in Springfield, Missouri, was organized in 1892.  By 1939 it in­cluded 45 affiliated local unions representing 12,000 members.  This single-sheet, folded program is for a “Minstrel and Revue” presented at Springfield’s Shrine Mosque on Monday evening, 3 April 1939.  A minstrel performance was followed by vaudeville acts and a concluding “after­piece” set in the “Club Crock-o-Beer-o.”

 

 

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