Oct 28, 2025 · Florence Mills, American singer and dancer, a leading performer during the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. She paved the way for African Americans in mainstream …

Mills became well known in New York as a result of her role in the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre (barely on Broadway), one of the events marking the beginning …

May 13, 2020 · Florence Mills captivated audiences as a performer during the Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance. She appeared in the shows ‘Shuffle Along’ and ‘Blackbirds.’

Mar 24, 2020 · Mills returned to New York City in 1920 at the start of an explosion of black intellectual and popular culture called the Harlem Renaissance. Jazz, a style of music with origins in black …

Delivered in her trademark soprano that came close to resembling birdsong, the tune earned Mills the nickname “Blackbird.” Some scholars of the Harlem Renaissance have suggested that the …

Mills was one of the most popular personalities of the Harlem Renaissance. Soon after, she returned to New York due to poor health, and she died on November 1st, 1927. Florence Mills’s funeral brought …

Florence Mills was a figure of major importance in the Harlem Renaissance. Most of the scholarly texts dealing with the period give little indication of this as they tend to focus on the literary highlights and …