This ad for the Blue Grass Club, a "black and tan" club owned by Benny Mason and managed by U. S. Dearing, nicknames Dearing "Prince of Green Pastures." Green Pastures was the name of a Broadway play in the early 1930s that starred Black Canadian actor Richard B. Harrison, whose parents had fled slavery via the Underground Railroad. When Harrison died in 1935, Black Clevelanders christened the eastern stretch of Cedar Avenue in present-day Fairfax as "Green Pastures." Dearing's Cleveland debut at Cedar Gardens earned him this nickname for a time. | Date: June 6, 1945 | Source: Cleveland PressDownload Original File
Source
Cleveland Press
Date
June 6, 1945
""Prince of Green Pastures"" appears in: U. S. Dearing
