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The Willa Mae Story
(DOCUMENTARY - Running Time: 10 minutes)
Bobby White

This stirring documentary captures the story of Willa Mae Buckner, who ran away from home when she was a teenager to become a performer in a traveling minstrel show.  In her lifetime she became a dancer, stripper, contortionist, performed her own snake show, drove a bus in Winston-Salem, NC, and finally, sang the blues in Chapel Hill, NC.