About This Episode

From Harlem's Golden Age: The Divas Who Won't Stop Dancing! They filled the dance halls of Harlem in its golden age, performing at the famed Apollo Theater and Cotton Club with legendary bandleaders like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. They led the first strike by African American performers when they walked out of the Apollo in a successful bid for higher wages, establishing AGVA, an integrated performer's union. They danced on the first black USO tour, stealing the "for colored only" signs off the trains they rode through the American South. That was over 65 years ago, and today they're still hoofin' and living it up. They are the "Silver Belles", the sassy, classy chorus line dancers still filling the concert halls well into their eighties and nineties. Women Film Critics Circle Award 2006.