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	Florence Mills House -- NRHP Travel Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
		Florence Mills was one of the most acclaimed entertainers of the 1920s, and she used her status as a performer to comment on the nation's racial ills.
		Mill's performances were a marked departure from the all-male vaudeville style which dominated theater of the time, and her acting drew rave reviews.
		Mills hoped that her "own success makes people think better of other colored folk," and she was a major contributor to the growth and spirit of the Harlem Renaissance.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ny24.htm (241 words)

	Mills Ancestry, George Mills Descendants Nine Generations - pafg28.htm -Mills Family Genealogy From Colonial America ...
		Florence Mills was born on 8 Dec 1887.
		Rufus Mills was born in 1852 in Ragged Reef, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia.
		Lydia Augusta (Gussie) Mills was born in 1865.
	www.geocities.com /millsancestry/9/pafg28.htm (1920 words)

	Florence Mills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Known as the "Queen of Happiness," Florence Mills was a popular African American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian known for her effervescent stage presence, delicate voice, and winsome, wide-eyed beauty.
		A daughter of former slaves Nellie (Simon) and John Winfrey, she was born Florence Winfrey in Washington, D.C., on January 25, 1896 and died in New York City, New York, on November 1, 1927.
		From 1921 until her death in 1927, she was married to Ulysses "Slow Kid" Thompson, whom she met in 1917 as the dancing conductor of a fl jazz band known as the Tennessee Ten.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florence_Mills (222 words)

	Florence Mills - The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC
		Florence Mills, known as the "Queen of Happiness" was one of the most successful entertainers of the 1920s.
		Florence, the youngest of three daughters of John and Nellie (Simon) Winfrey, was born on January 25, 1895.
		Florence then moved to New York with her mother and sisters and by age fourteen had organized a traveling song and dance act with her sisters known as the Mills Sisters.
	www.dclibrary.org /blkren/bios/millsf.html (1035 words)

	The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers - Black Book Reviews
		She was born Florence Winfrey on January 25, 1896 in a middle class section of Washington, D.C., but hard times forced the family to move to a less desirable section of the city known as Goat Alley.
		Florence began her exodus from the Alley at the tender age of three and by the time she was seven, she was supplementing the family's income by performing in the bordellos where her mother did laundry.
		Florence and her two sisters traveled the globe displaying their talents and gaining prominence in a world dominated by people who were different, by race and by gender.
	www.therawreviewers.com /artman/publish/FlorenceMills.shtml (388 words)

	Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Florence Mills
		Florence Mills was born on January 25, 1895, in either Washington, D.C., or Virginia.
		Florence played vaudeville until she was 25 years old, teaming up with people like Ada "Bricktop" Smith and Cora Green.
		Mills died suddenly in the fall of 1926 of appendicitis.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/Harlem/text/fmills.html (293 words)

	National Cattlemen's Beef Association
		Mills received glowing endorsements for his nomination from his peers in all facets of the cattle industry.
		Mills regularly shares his practical "cowboy" knowledge with civic and community groups, as well as cooperates with industry and university leaders in numerous research trials and performance tests.
		Mills is a member of the Kansas Beef Council Executive Committee, a consultant for an Angus alliance, a partner in a heifer development company and a member of many county, state and national livestock associations -- such as the Kansas Livestock Association, the Society for Range Management and the National Cattlemenâs Beef Association.
	www.beef.org /newsrandymillsnamedcattlebusinessmanoftheyear4404.aspx (710 words)

	Book Review - Scott Yanow's Jazz on Film, Bill Egan's Florence Mills
		Florence Mills was, in the parlance of the entertainment world, a trouper.
		Florence Mills did, of course, have extensive contact with the Jazz personalities of her day.
		Florence Mills died in 1927 and her funeral sparked tremendous waves of public grief among literally thousands of people.
	www.jazznow.com /0105/0105BR.html (1641 words)

	Mills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mills is a surname, and may refer to many people.
		Ann Mills, British woman of the eighteenth century, was a disguised sailor
		Florence Mills (1896-1927), an African American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mills (631 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Florence is on Farm Road 195 thirty-four miles north of Austin in northwestern Williamson County.
		The origin of this name is uncertain: it may have derived from Florence, Alabama, an early home of the first postmaster, or it may refer to Florence Brooks, the daughter of the town's first merchant.
		Florence grew steadily from an estimated population of 350 in 1900 to a high of 1,000 recorded from 1927 to 1929.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/FF/hlf16.html (393 words)

	Windsor man called leader of prison gang
		Mills is a reputed leader of a notorious prison gang, accused of negotiating a murder with the late Mafia chieftain John Gotti among other crimes.
		Mills already is serving a life sentence for a conviction of killing a fellow inmate at an Atlanta federal prison in 1979.
		Mills and the other defendants are being moved to Los Angeles as attorneys prepare for trial, which is expected to feature witnesses from within the gang.
	www.rickross.com /reference/aryan_brotherhood/aryan_brotherhood3.html (885 words)

	African American Registry: Florence Mills, Harlem's "Blackbird"
		A young Florence was on stage full-time as a child, first as a “pickaninny” in White vaudeville then as a sister act on the Black popular entertainment circuit.
		Mills’ big break came in 1921 in Chicago with Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake’s Shuffle Along, the show that introduced syncopated song and dance to White America.
		Florence Mills’ funeral brought over 150,000 people out on the streets, the largest such gathering in Harlem’s history.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/665/Florence_Mills_Harlems_Blackbird (228 words)

	Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen
		By age seven Mills was performing in theatres and private homes, and she rapidly developed a name on the vaudeville and burlesque circuits.
		Mills could do it all: she sang blues, “hot jazz”, and ballads, plus she danced, acted, and was an accomplished comedian and mime.
		It's also clear that Mills was a special personality; she was an intelligent woman with a warm, open heart, and even at the height of her fame showed a remarkable lack of affectation.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=21232 (567 words)

	Drop Me Off in Harlem
		Florence Mills was an immensely popular performer and Harlem personality, evidenced by the more than 150,000 people who crowded the streets around Mother Zion Church in Harlem in 1927 to mourn her untimely death from appendicitis.
		Her whirlwind career began at the age of four, when she appeared on stage in a musical that was written, produced, and performed by African Americans.
		Mills held audiences spellbound with her eccentric dancing and her unique, high-pitched voice.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/harlem/faces/mills_text.html (378 words)

	Florence Mills
		The passionate conviction that drove Florence Mills was her belief she could use her talent for entertainment to help breakdown the barriers of prejudice enmeshing her people.
		Florence’s success in winning hearts and minds in England was due in no small part to her transparently sincere and lovable personality.
		It is my ambition to help restore Florence Mills in the public eye and to her own people as a small return for the pleasure and inspiration I have received from Black culture and music.
	www.nathanielturner.com /florencemills.htm (2499 words)

	Foster grandparent inspires students: 6/ 3/ 2005
		Mills is a grandmother and a retired hairdresser who works at the North Dartmouth school four hours a day, five days a week.
		Mills' husband, James William "Bill" Mills, died in 1986 after they had been married for 45 years.
		Mills reflected on her work and her love for the children.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/06-05/06-03-05/a01lo796.htm (605 words)

	Cinema Treasures \| Florence Mills Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-31)
		The 700-seat Florence Mills was part of a now long lost theater area in South Central Los Angeles.
		Florence Mills was a great fl singer-dancer-comedian who died all too soon in 1927 at age 32 after an operation for appendicitis.
		Film Daily Year Books as early as 1932 have this listed as the Florence Mills Theatre, but always with 700 seats, which is a big difference from 1,700...Curiously, there was also once an 800-seat Bill Robinson Theatre, named in honor of the great fl tapdancer, at 4219 South Central Avenue.
	cinematreasures.org /theater/2388 (473 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Florence Mills
		London first saw Florence Mills in C.B.Cochran’s revue Dover Street to Dixie in 1923.
		Mills never overtly wooed her audience, yet always aroused them to wild enthusiasm.
		She was born in 1895, to ex-slaves in a Washington, D.C. slum.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/object.php?object_id=1109&back=/guided_tours/dance_tour/black_dance/musicals_mills.php? (210 words)

	Remember Cliffside \| In The News
		Jenkins was born May 15, 1873 on a farm only a short distance away from the offices of the great Cliffside Mills of which he is now treasurer.
		Henry Jenkins and his mother before her marriage Miss Mary Petty of near Gaffney, S.C. Both have since passed to the great Beyond, but their memory remains fragrant to all who knew them, splendid citizens as they were of this county.
		In 1901 when the new widely known Cliffside Mills were just beginning he became manager of the commissary pay roll and acted also as Postmaster, being the first postmaster Cliffside ever had.
	remembercliffside.com /inthenews/zojenkins.html (580 words)

	Sitka Historical Society, Isabel Miller Museum, Tlingit history, Russian museum, Alaska, Alaska native education.
		William Ritchie Mills, who was one of early arrivals to Sitka, and competitor to John Brady, a Presbyterian Missionary who became a tradesman, and later governor of the District of Alaska.
		Mary Ann Mills' son, William Parker Mills, was the founder of W. Mills company, and the cause of a “nasty dispute” with John Brady, which erupted in 1901, and was settled out of court just before coming to trial in Juneau in 1902, disputing Brady’s access to water from Swan Lake for his saw mill.
		In April 1903, W.P. Mills, the son of Mary and William Ritchie Mills, acting as school board member, blocked the entrance of Sitka Public School no. 1 to prevent teacher Cassia Patton from bringing 5 “Ranche” (native) children in to that school.
	www.sitkahistory.org /foundingmembers.shtml (975 words)

	Town of Forest City, NC - Florence Mill Redevelopment Project
		Florence was one of the first mills that did not rely on waterpower and opened with 12,000 spindles, 200 Draper looms and 200 Lowell looms.
		Cone Mills continued to utilize the mill complex until 2001, when they closed the plant with a loss of almost 300 jobs and moved the equipment to the Henrietta plant.
		Florence Plant is one of the few plants in the country that did not close.
	www.townofforestcity.com /florencemill.html (756 words)

	Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Florence Mills - Main Page
		Florence's voice as a singer was very cheery and bright.
		Florence's Sister Maudewas a great Tap dancer known as "Hardfoot Maude" because she could hit the floor with such force.
		etc. of Florence mainly because she was the queen of the Stage and not Film.
	www.streetswing.com /histmai2/d2flomills.htm (332 words)

	Juliet Mills Photos - Juliet Mills News - Juliet Mills Information
		Emmy award-winning Juliet Mills portrays Tabitha Lenox, the seemingly thoughtful and sweet next-door neighbor who is really a 300 year-old witch intent on wreaking havoc on the residents of Harmony.
		A member of the famous British family that includes her father actor Sir John Mills, her mother, playwright Lady Mary Mills and sister, actress Hayley Mills, Juliet just received a Daytime...
		She is the daughter of actor John Mills and playwright Mary Hayley Bell, and older sister of Hayley Mills.
	www.tv.com /juliet-mills/person/14077/summary.html (321 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Florence Mills Theatre was a prominent night club during the 1930s and 1940s.
		Jesse the "Marathon Man" recalled that it was at the Florence Mills Theatre where he was arrested for the first time and that many prominent African American celebrities frequented.
		Ersey O'Brien, another gentleman that was born and raised in the community also recalls the "hype" surrounding the Florence Mills Theatre, for further information click on the audio link.
	www.usc.edu /dept/LAS/history/historylab/Vernon_Central/BLOCKS/BLK_08/BLK_08_CENTRAL_3511.html (175 words)

	Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen Internet Bookwatch - Find Articles
		Contributing to Scarecrow's 'Studies in Jazz' series comes Bill Egan's Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen, a unique biography of the African American entertainer of the 1920s from childhood to her death at age 31.
		Mills' achievements opened the doors for generations of fl female stars from Lena Horne to modern times, and chapters recount how Mills was able to break through the white barriers to become a star in her own right.
		She even became famous enough to be listed in a New York Times list of dignitaries sailing aboard a vessel, and helped redefine the world of entertainment as a whole, which was formerly divided between 'fl' and 'white' entertainment.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SFC/is_2005_Feb/ai_n13467436 (163 words)

	BioM: Mills, Florence (Aug. 1932)
		A pretty wedding of the early fall, was that of Miss Florence Delight MILLS, daughter of Mr.
		MILLS, West Sixth street, to Charles Albert WENDT, son of Mr.
		The ceremony was performed at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, at the home of the bride's parents before an improvised altar decorated in pink and white crepe paper and garden flowers.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/wi/county/clark/webbbs/records/index.cgi?read=14346 (327 words)

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		Born in total poverty in Washington, DC., on January 25, 1896, Florence Mills sore through dedication and talent as a singer and dancer to become the outstanding Black women in America musical during the Jazz Age and the most popular personality in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.
		"Baby Florence" was on stage full time beginning at childhood, first as a "pickaninny" a white vaudeville, then in a sister act on the Black popular entertainment circuit.
		After working in a wild South Side Chicago cabaret, her big break came when Mills was given the opportunity to play the ingenue in Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's phenomenal
	www.hometoharlem.com /HARlem/hthcult.nsf/4475d09ab4ad8495852565cf001d3b50/2b1fb5b88a2126b4852565cf001dbca3!OpenDocument (235 words)

	Drop Me Off in Harlem
		With its all-fl cast, Shuffle Along introduced Broadway to the rising young stars Florence Mills, Paul Robeson, and a 15-year-old singer and dancer named Josephine Baker.
		Florence Mills made her stage-musical debut in Shuffle Along.
		As a fan of Florence Mills, Langston Hughes was often in the audience.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/harlem/themes/shufflealong_text.html (318 words)

	NPR : 2005 Summer Reading: The Listeners Choose
		In the 1920s, Mills was the unparalleled jazz artist of her generation.
		She had the distinction of turning down the great Ziegfeld for his "Follies" in deference to the work she felt her status obliged her to continue on behalf of her race.
		His book is a monument not only to Mills' memory, but to the history of popular theatre as it matured via jazz from vaudeville to Broadway.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4840636 (721 words)

	dunkin - pafg04.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Elizabeth married James Henderson Mills, son of Walter A. Mills and Manda "Nancy" Prewett, on 21 Jan 1879 in Oregon Co. Mo.
		Lucy Mills was born in 1880 in Oregon Co. Mo.
		Thomas was born on 17 Nov 1884 in Mo. He died on 9 Aug 1952 and was buried in Wirth Cemetery, Wirth, Ark.
	www.midrivers.com /~egrooms/web/dunkin/pafg04.htm (762 words)

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