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Moms Mabley

CTL-E-5170 · Person · artist · 1920s–1970s

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Stand-up comedian and actress; first female comic to perform at the Apollo Theater (1939); Chitlin' Circuit veteran.

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Notes

CTL-COMEDY-004 alternate identifier. Collection: Black comedy pioneers (CTL-COMEDY-5 dataset, 2026-10-08).

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