How Did Florence Mills Lead To Success?

Florence Mills, AKA the queen of happiness, born 1-25-1896, was famous for many things. One outstanding thing she did was make an successful group called “the mills sisters”. Also she played in over 300 flawless performances. Some that you may know her by is “Shuffle Along”. It was over 17 people who tried out and florence was the 1 out of 3 people who made it out. Allowing her to perform in other performances like “I’m A Little Blackbird”, “Plantation Revenge” and many others. Florence Mills lived a good life, unfortunately dying in her early 30’s. She still at the end of the day was by far the best pioneer to read about. Labeled as black beauty.

Florence Mills played in over 300 performances. Shuffle along is an all black cast, first successful musical of the kind in over a decade. Great old Florence Mills played in shuffle along and was literally the most noticed star. This is relevant because not only is she mostly known from her broadways from her show shuffle along, but she went through alot of sexism and racism. Mills also performed in Dixie Broadway. Dixie Broadway is the first african american musical comedy to play on a broadway stage.Overall, florence performed outstandingly and was one of the first blacks to do it. Florence then went on over to Europe and performed in Dover
This group is what she was in growing up with her sisters (Olivia and Maude) Mills parents were enslaved both simon and john winfrey. I think that’s why I have the most respect for florence.It wasn't really easy for Florence, her parents were enslaved so part of the reason on why she danced was to raise money, but some of it was just because they loved dancing.Growing up just at 7 Florence already begun to dance. This point is what really helped Florence become noticed. Her and her sisters would perform at theaters in Harlem to raise money as