The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Skip Cunningham

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Skip Cunningham

2/7/2019

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2019.013

Entertainer Skip Cunningham (1936 - ) toured with the Billy Williams Revue and made numerous appearances on The Merv Griffin Show and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and was featured in Eubie! on Broadway and in Evolution of the Blues. Cunningham was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 2/7/2019, in Los Angeles, California. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 10; Total Run Time: 04h 16m 46s

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Cunningham, Skip, 1936-

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Entertainer Skip Cunningham was born on April 24, 1936 to Geneva Davis and William Henry Cunningham in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from Morgan Park High School and attended the University of Illinois at Navy Pier, before transferring to Woodrow Wilson Junior College where he received his A.A. degree in 1956.In 1941, at the age of five, Cunningham started tap lessons at the Sadie Bruce Dance School in the Bronzeville area of Chicago. Starting at the age of eight, he performed throughout the c...