S.O.D. "Four Day Creep" by Ida Cox

8/31/2023 This singer and vaudeville entertainer came from the bare minimum to achieve her success. Three years, 1888, 1894, and 1896. These are her three possible birth years. She grew up, working on the plantation (not a slave) of a wealthy family with her parents, and joined the church minstrel group at a very young age, then leaving at the age of 14 to tour with White and Clark’s Black & Tan Minstrels. A huge success, and independent businesswoman, she was one of the few black women to own and manage a business, and write her own songs in that era.