Billy Pierce (choreographer)

Billy Pierce (14 June 1890 – 11 April 1933) was an African American choreographer, dancer and dance studio owner who has been credited with the invention of the Black Bottom dance that became a national craze in the mid-1920s.^[1]

^ Gates, Henry Louis; et al. (2009). Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 396–7. ISBN 978-0195387957.

[Harlem_Renaissance_Lives-1] Gates, Henry Louis; et al. (2009). Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. pp. 396–7. ISBN 978-0195387957.

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