Watching his talents more closely here, I have a real appreciation for what he was doing — and how he did it — during a ...

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who was born in Richmond in 1878, was one of the most famous and highest-paid African American entertainers of the 20th century.

Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, who was born in Richmond in 1878, was one of the most famous and highest-paid African American entertainers of the 20th century.

Legendary jazz tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was born on May 25, 1878, in Richmond, Virginia. His given name was Luther, but he despised it and appropriated that of his ...

Robinson signed the front of the photograph at the left center of the image, in blue ink: [to a very / smart little / lady, Sally Jay (?) / wishing you / the best of / everything / Bill Bojangles / ...

Broadway legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson was the best-known and highest-paid African-American entertainer in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century.

Tap dancer Bill Robinson, known as Bojangles, far left, is assisted by Mary Bruce on piano as he leads young dancers to the “Charleston Walk” in New York City on Dec. 27, 1944. The children ...

Bill "Bojangles" Robinson is dancing in the aluminum statue that stands in Jackson Ward, the majority Black neighborhood where he grew up in racially segregated Richmond. But Robinson, a ...

In eulogizing Robinson in 1949, the Reverend Adam Clayton Powel, Jr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in the Harlem, observed, "Bill wasn't a credit to his race, meaning the Negro race.