@africanheritagecity: @oldhollywoodblackhistorybeauty • Good morning all! Please enjoy this colorized clip of Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers dancing to “All Gods Chillun Got Rhythm” in the Marx Brothers film “A Day At The Races” #1937 Whitey's Lindy Hoppers was a professional performing group of exceptional black swing dancers that was first organized in the late 1920s by Herbert "Whitey" White in the Savoy Ballroom and disbanded in 1942 after its male members were drafted into World War II. The list of known dancers that performed in this film are as follows: Troy Brown,Dorothy Miller,JohnnySmalls,Norma Miller,Leon James,Snooky Beasley,Willa Mae Ricker, Ella Gibson, and George Greenidge. If you watch the whole scene in the film, you’ll see Whitey in the background with the white streak in his hair. • #vintage#retro #1930s #30s#blackisbeautiful #blackexcellence#dancing#swing#swingdance#lindyhop#dance#blackdance#nostalgia#vintagefashion #classicfilms#oldmovies#dancevideo #classic#jazz #cool#History#BlackHistory#blackdancers #blackexcellence

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