Florence
Mills Month by Month: JanuarY 
1896 Born
610 K Street NW, a middle-class area of Washington DC;
Family moves later to Goat Alley, a slum area
1910
Plays Majestic Theatre (Brooklyn?) with Mills Sisters
1922 Signs contract
for her own show at Plantation, on Broadway
1924 Friends and family give her a surprise birthday party
at her new home
1923
In Dixie to Broadway, opens 3-month
run at Lyric Theatre, Philadelphia
1926 Gives classical concert of
William Grant Still songs before international music audience at Aeolian
Hall
1927 Makes sensation at London Jewish charity appeal when she
sings Jewish hymn "Eli,
Eli"