Publicity photo of Ethel Waters in costume for As Thousands Cheer. Ethel Waters was an American singer and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, but she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was the first African-American to star on her own television show, in 1939, and the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award, in 1962. Written on back of photo: Ethel Waters as she appeared in "While Thousands Cheer" from the H.T. Sampson Collection
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