The Chicago Defender‘s “A Note or Two” column was a regular feature of its Movie and Stage Department section, listing contact information for musicians, singers, and dancers traveling chitlin’ circuits around the country. The 18 May 1929 edition contained these two mentions:

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• Leroy McCoy
• Thresa Garrett — the Florida Blossom minstrel show, out of Macon, Georgia, was one of the largest African-American minstrel groups touring in the early twentieth century.