George B. Wooldridge

George B. Wooldridge

:"Tom Quick redirects here. For the criminal, see Thomas Quick"

George B. Wooldridge was the business manager of the first blackface minstrel troupe, the Virginia Minstrels, in the mid-19th century. He sometimes went by the name Tom Quick.

References

Day, Charles (1996). "Fun in Black". "Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy." Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press.


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