GEORGIA MINSTRELS, THE. Minstrel troupes (org. 1865; fl. through 1930s). The use of the title Georgia Minstrels in association with a black minstrel troupe apparently was first used in 1865. In April of that year
W. H. Lee
, a white man, organized a troupe of fifteen ex-slaves at Macon, Georgia. Some time during the same year (later?) black entrepreneur
Charles (Barney
) Hicks
organized a minstrel troupe of black men at Indianapolis, Indiana. Lee toured with his troupe in the Northeast...
