Happy Birthday Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates! October 11th! #peglegbates #legend #master #Repost @industrytuesdaysla ・・・ wow 🚨🖤🔥🔥🔥🔥 #Repost @leonlee10 ・・・ #blackhistorymonth Peg Leg Bates Tap Dancer born Clayton Bates, by the age of 5, Bates was dancing on the streets of Fountain Inn, South Carolina for pennies and nickels, he lost a leg at the age of 12 in a cotton gin accident. His uncle, Wit made his crude first “Peg Leg” after returning home from World War 1 and finding his nephew handicappe

#Repost @blackdancehistory ・・・ Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, monoped dancer whose rhythm tap dancing was melodically and rhythmically enhanced by the combination of his deep-toned peg, made of leather and rubber-tipped, and the higher-pitched metallic tap shoe, was born Clayton Bates, the son of Rufus Bates, a laborer, and Emma Steward Bates, a sharecropper and housecleaner. He began dancing when he was five. At twelve, while working in a cotton seed gin mill, he caught and mangled his left leg in a