User:RLamb/Charles "Cool" White

Charles "Cool" White (d. 1900?), also known as "Charley" White, was an early blackface minstrel performer, originally noted for playing the accordion. Having first incorporated some minstrel patter into his accordion act he founded White's Kitchen Minstrels in New York in the early 1840s, opening at the Melodeum on the Bowery.^[1]

White may also have formed part of the minstrel troupe the Ethiopian Serenaders which first visited London in January 1846. In an advertisement for their opening performance in England the members are listed as "Messrs. German, Stanwood, Harrington, Pell and White".^[2]

According to a report by Isaac Odell, a former minstrel whose reminiscences are recorded in the New York Times, White died c. 1900 in New Orleans.^[3]

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^ New York Times, May 19, 1907:- 'The Lay of the Last of the Old Minstrels: Interesting Reminiscences of Isaac Odell, Who Was A Burnt Cork Artist Sixty Years Ago.'
^ The Times, Saturday, Jan 24, 1846; pg. 7; Issue 19142; col D
^ New York Times, May 19, 1907:- 'The Lay of the Last of the Old Minstrels: Interesting Reminiscences of Isaac Odell, Who Was A Burnt Cork Artist Sixty Years Ago.'

[1] New York Times, May 19, 1907:- 'The Lay of the Last of the Old Minstrels: Interesting Reminiscences of Isaac Odell, Who Was A Burnt Cork Artist Sixty Years Ago.'

[2] The Times, Saturday, Jan 24, 1846; pg. 7; Issue 19142; col D

[3] New York Times, May 19, 1907:- 'The Lay of the Last of the Old Minstrels: Interesting Reminiscences of Isaac Odell, Who Was A Burnt Cork Artist Sixty Years Ago.'

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