WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
"Lige" Shaw began drumming in minstrel shows at age 10 in Jackson, Tennessee. He traveled with Bowen's and Blondon's Dandy Dixie Minstrels, the Original Georgia Minstrels and other theatre and dance orchestras until he settled in St. Louis in the late 1920s. He worked as a drummer in St. Louis and served several terms as president of Musicians Local 197.
Contains playbills, correspondence, advertisements and newsclippings on jazz musicians and civil rights sit-ins.
INDEX
African American History
Armstrong, Louis
Blake, Eubie
Bumbry, Grace
Civil Rights
Cotter, John
Dixeland Jazz
Dixon, Dean
Gaslight Square
Green, Pelagie
Green, Percy
Handy, W.C.
Hempill, Julius Arthur
Jazz
Mason, Norman
Music
Musicians Local 197
Oswald, Vivian
Palmer, Singleton
Riverboat Jazz
Riverfront
Russell, Pee Wee
Schatzkamer, William
Shaw Elijah
Sit-ins
St. Louis Jazz Club
St. Louis Jazz Festival
Stern, Walter
Turner, Ike
Williams, James E.
WESTERN HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
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