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Clayton Bates
Title: Clayton Bates
Category: History
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Clayton Bates
Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates
Clayton Bates was born in 1907, in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. As a young boy, he worked in the cotton fields and his mother was a nurse for a white family. Clayton hated his job though, and his true love was dancing. Some days, he would secretly go to the local barber shop and dance for the rich white men for some extra money, until one day when his mother found out …showed first 75 words of 860 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 860 total…about never giving up, no matter what life throws their way. In 1995, “Peg Leg” returned to perform a show called “This Joint is Jumpin’ ”.
Although Clayton is no longer fit to perform, he continues to inspire dancers and fans of his, and can still be heard saying his standard closing at the end of each performance, “You have made a certain one-legged dancer very very happy. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you.”
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