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Otis Redding wins the Douglass talent show until they ban him

Douglass Theatre, Macon · 1958

Otis Redding wins the Douglass talent show until they ban him

Charles Douglass, a Black businessman, built this theatre in 1921 for a circuit that let Black performers work the South, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Cab Calloway all played it.

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