[Comedy at the Muse featuring Esau McGraw tape 1]

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Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during comedian Esau McGraw live comedy performance at the Clarence Muse Café Theater over the weekend of December 10-11th, 2011. The footage shows Marvin Michaels opening and McGraw coming on stage at the 22:00 minute mark. McGraw's stand-up routine focuses on the topics of music, social life, and the black male experience.

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1 videocassette (MiniDV) (53 min., 12 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/4 in.

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McGraw, Esau & Michaels, Marvin December 10, 2011.

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  • The Black Academy of Arts and Letters

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Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during comedian Esau McGraw live comedy performance at the Clarence Muse Café Theater over the weekend of December 10-11th, 2011. The footage shows Marvin Michaels opening and McGraw coming on stage at the 22:00 minute mark. McGraw's stand-up routine focuses on the topics of music, social life, and the black male experience.

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1 videocassette (MiniDV) (53 min., 12 sec.) : sd., col. ; 1/4 in.

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  • Preferred Citation: The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records (AR0797), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Event photographs from the Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Incorporated (TBAAL), a Dallas-based nonprofit. Some items in this collection are restricted to use by the UNT community.

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  • December 10, 2011

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  • June 10, 2022, 12:39 p.m.

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  • July 25, 2022, 3:37 p.m.

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McGraw, Esau & Michaels, Marvin. [Comedy at the Muse featuring Esau McGraw tape 1], video, December 10, 2011; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1941397/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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