Florence Mills: Month by Month: November
1911 Teenage star of School Days in Darktown (Olympia Theatre, Brooklyn) produced by Cecil Mack of "Charleston" fame
1913 "Baby" Mills wins Cakewalk contest at Norfolk Social Club
1918 Panama Four plays Chicago Grand Theatre, with legendary ragtime pianist Tony Jackson ("Pretty Baby")
1921 At Shuffle Along midnight benefit performance at Waldorf Astoria
1923 Broadcasts on WHN in honor of being guest star in Greenwich Village Follies, first Black
female featured in major White revue
1924 Dixie to Broadway opens at Broadhurst, New York; first black production on mainstream Broadway
1925 Blackbirds of 1925 opens at Plantation cabaret, in preparation for European tour
1927 Florence Mills dies; an estimated 500,000 attend her Harlem funeral