When Bill travels to Chicago to participate in Cab’s play the less advanced, poor southern Black America leads into the wealthy, high class, urban scene of northern Black America: Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers perform dressed in white tie and tails. Instead of careless shuffling and jiving, the “improved” higher class black man is a competent adult who makes profit from his talent. Messrs. Robinson, Wilson, Miller and Lyles express the then previously racist view of blacks: uneducated, ignorant, yet holding an important working role in white society. Lena Horne, Katherine Dunham, and Messrs. Calloway and Nicholas exhibit the new Hollywood racist view of African Americans post Forties: successful polished, wealthy performers. These blacks are literate, advanced, don’t pose as a direct threat, but their obvious wealth exceeds that of most white Americans of the Forties, and typically started white…