SILAS GREEN FROM NEW ORLEANS. Tent show (org. c1890s).
(Professor
) Eph Williams
was the owner of the tent show in the 1890s; at that time he was reputed to be the only Negro owner of a circus in the United States. After his death the show foundered for a while, then became the property of
Charles Collier
in 1921, who reorganized it. During the 1930s the touring show included sixty-five persons and traveled with its own special train equipped with...
