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Elder Lucy Smith 2
Elder Lucy Smith
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Elder Lucy Smith 1
Elder Lucy Smith. Photo courtesy Vivian Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature.
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Mary Evans
Mary Evans. Courtesy of Vivian Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature
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Clarence Cobbs with Cigar
Clarence Cobbs. Photographed by Wayne F. Miller.
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Clarence Cobbs
Reverend Clarence Cobbs
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Finnie Halloween Ball
Sign for a Finnie's Balls in 1940s
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The Goblins
The Goblins, Ernest Burgess Papers, University of Chicago, Chicago IL
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Jerry "Scout" Jones
Jerry "Scout" Jones, famous organizer of Drag Balls in the 1950s
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Drag Balls
Various pictures of the Drag Balls published by African American Newspapers
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Johnny Ryan
Johnny Ryan, Burgess Papers, Box 98, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Diversity and Drag Balls
Various pictures of the Drag Balls published by African American Newspapers
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Eddie Phlique
Gay Disc Jockey Eddie Phlique with two female impersonators during a Drag Ball in 1940
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Cabin Inn Ad
Ad for the Cabin Inn in the Chicago Defender, 1936
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Club DeLisa
Club DeLisa [Photograph by Wayne F. MIller]
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Club DeLisa
Club DeLisa [Chicago Historical Society]
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Regal Theater
Regal Theater [Chicago Historical Society]
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The Nightlife in Bronzeville
The Nightlife in Bronzeville [Chicago Historical Society]
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45th Street
45th Street [Chicago Historical Society]
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Leo
Leo, 18, “I decided that I could act as I wished among the faggots, but among the straight people I had to act reserve. I have always swished quite a bit, and with Jam people I tried to act more manly but I was conscious of myself with Jam people. I…
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My Story of Fags, Freaks and Women Impersonators
“When they want to get married they go to a bull diggars ball, a bulldiggars marries them, put a mark or the fag, and they tells her next husband how many times she has been married. […] The women fucker, she fucks women like men, if she fucks your…