This Day in Black History: May 23, 1975
This Day in Black History: May 23, 1975
Jackie “Moms” Mabley, pioneer stand-up comedienne, died on May 23, 1975.
Jackie “Moms” Mabley was a trail-blazing stand-up comic, achieving great professional and commercial success in an age where there were few Black women in the field of comedy.
She was born Loretta Mary Aiken in 1894 in Brevard, North Carolina. At the age of 15, she ran away from home and went to Cleveland with a traveling minstrel show, where she began singing and entertaining.
By the 1950s, Mabley had become one of the most popular and successful women comics in the nation, earning $10,000 a week at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. She recorded more than 20 albums of various comedy routines.
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Jackie “Moms” Mabley, pioneer stand-up comedienne, died on May 23, 1975. https://www.bet.com/article/sucv39/this-da...
Jackie “Moms” Mabley, pioneer stand-up comedienne, died on May 23, 1975.
Jackie “Moms” Mabley was a trail-blazing stand-up comic, achieving great professional and commercial success in an age where there were few Black women in the field of comedy.
She was born Loretta Mary Aiken in 1894 in Brevard, North Carolina. At the age of 15, she ran away from home and went to Cleveland with a traveling minstrel show, where she began singing and entertaining.
By the 1950s, Mabley had become one of the most popular and successful women comics in the nation, earning $10,000 a week at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. She recorded more than 20 albums of various comedy routines.
READ MORE: This Day in Black History: May 23, 1975
Jackie “Moms” Mabley, pioneer stand-up comedienne, died on May 23, 1975. https://www.bet.com/article/sucv39/this-da...
