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Morton Building in Athens, Georgia (2)
Morton Building
Morton Building in Athens, Georgia.
Morton Building in Athens
Morton Theater
Opened in 1910, the Morton Building was one of the first vaudeville theaters that was built, owned, and operated by an African-American. It is one the oldest surviving vaudeville theaters in the United States. It was restored in the early 1990s and…
Morton Theatre
The most prominent enterprise that has existed within the Morton Building was the Morton Theatre, which opened on the evening of May 18, 1910, with a piano concert by Alice Carter Simmons of Oberlin, Ohio Conservatory, attended by both black and…
Morty Manford
Morty Manford, President of Gay People at Columbia
