From the Vault 508: Gene De Alessi's Lives of Black Entertainers
On this edition of From the Vault we present Gene De Alessi's 1968 program called Lives of Black Entertainers, a study of Black artists in America since the early 1900's. In it, De Alessi narrates profiles on Marian Anderson, Josephine Baker, Will Marion Cook, Ethel Waters, Abbey Mitchell, Claude McKay, and Roland Hayes among others.