COLE, ROBERT ALLEN (BOB
). Entertainer/ Lyricist ( in Athens, Georgia; in New York, New York). At the age of fourteen he went to Atlanta, Georgia, where he obtained his musical education at Atlanta University. He began his professional career in Chicago, Illinois, working at first with
Lew Henry
in a vaudeville act, then with
Stella Wiley
in an act before he and Wiley joined Sam T. Jack's
Creole Company
in 1895. Produced by white management,...
COLE, ROBERT ALLEN
(1868–1911)> ENTERTAINER/ LYRICIST