in Broadway (Manhattan) - early 20th Century
from Ragged but right / Lynn Abbott, pages 44-5:
[As reported in the New York press] "... rioting was wholly unknown to Hogan, when he left the Cherry Blossom Grove, where he had been doing his turn as usual.
'All Coons Look Alike to Me,' Mr. Hogan's own composition, had been rendered, to the applause of a large audience. Hogan, fashionably dressed, stood on the curb, twirling his cane.
A cry came from Forty-fourth street and Eighth avenue, and a mob of five hundred men, armed with clubs and stones, surged over towards Broadway. Hogan was seen. "Get the nigger!" was the chorus. Hogan dropped his cane and started down… more >>
Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff (ed.), Ragged but right / Lynn Abbott (Jackson, 2007), p. 44-5. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1447092479565 accessed: 25 November, 2024
Listening to
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All coons look alike to me
written by Ernest Hogan |
performed by Ernest Hogan |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | early 20th Century |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Following the murder of a New York city policeman by a black man in August 1900, white mob violence was randomly directed against African Americans on the streets of Manhattan.