Agency through Otherness: Portraits of Performers in Circus Route Books, 1875-1925Main MenuIntroductionIntroduction to the book and information about ways to navigate the content.The American Experiment: Circus in ContextCircus performers and American history timelineRouting the Circus: The Things They CarriedCircus Routes Map, 1875-1925Ethnological Congresses and the Spectacleby Rebecca FitzsimmonsOutsiders in Demand: Chinese and Japanese Immigrant Performersby Angela Yon and Mariah WahlShattering Gender Roles: Women in the Circusby Elizabeth HarmanSide Show Sounds: Black Bandleaders Respond to ExoticismAnnexed Circus Musicians by Elizabeth C. HartmanNative Performance and Identity in The Wild West Showby Mariah WahlShowmen's Rests: The Final CurtainCircus Cemetery Plots by Elizabeth C. HartmanList of PerformersPerformers covered in this exhibitBibliography & Further ReadingsBibliography and readings for each chapterAcknowledgementsAngela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
Freeman, April 13, 1901, Page 3
1media/19010413 Freeman_thumb.png2021-02-24T11:52:47-08:00Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1382942Cropped image from the Freeman (Indianapolis, Indiana), April 13, 1901, Page 3, detailing Prof. E. Williams, African American circus owner.plain2021-02-24T11:54:25-08:001901-04-13Media is provided here for educational purposes only.Angela Yon72f2fd7a28c88ceeba2adcf2c04fee469904c6f1
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12021-02-24T11:42:02-08:00The Black Circus & The Multiplicity of Gazes3plain2021-03-13T11:06:44-08:00Forced into the annex, squeezed into the crime portions of the newspapers, and forbidden from secret societies, African Americans created their own spaces. In addition to the Black press and Black fraternal organizations, Black Americans began to created their own circuses in the 1900s, having created their own fairs starting in the 1870s.
