a black cantor on records?

[Eric Goldberg <ericgoldie...>]

This was posted on the 78-L and I wondered if any of you might be able to
help with information.

Eric Goldberg
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>Donna Halper (dlh (at) donnahalper(dot)com) writes to the 78-l list:     
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>>> Allegedly, some of those great cantors made records. . . .[There was]  a
>black Jew acknowledged back then as the only black Jewish cantor...Btw, his
>name was
> Thomas Jones LaRue, and according to an article I found about him, he made
> several records of Jewish music in the early 1920s...    <<
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