Bill “Bojangles“ Robinson, Portrait in a Minute

The National Portrait Gallery’s Jewell Robinson discusses a 1935 photograph of Bill “Bojangles“ Robinson by George Hurrell. The “Dancing the Dream“ exhibition is on display from October 4, 2013 through July 13, 2014. Tap-dancing virtuoso Bill “Bojangles“ Robinson began earning nickels and dimes for his street- corner routines and beer-garden performances when he was a child, and he was barely in his teens when he joined the chorus of the touring minstrel extravaganza The South Before the War. But it was