1908, the act was noted for popularizing the cakewalk, a dance at which Alice would become particularly proficient.

In 1909, when Alice was nine years old, her mother Caddie died. Mabel, the family's oldest daughter, took over raising Alice, as well as managing the group. Over the course of Mabel's leadership of the group, it would become the highest-paid act on the black vaudeville circuit.

Baby Alice

Not long after joining, "Baby" Alice became

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