Obit Research

And as I looked around the internet, I couldn’t find a real obituary for him, which surprised me since 1985 wasn’t that long ago. I also was pretty disappointed. Not only is Perry’s stage name a name that’s thrown around a lot in popular culture- enough to merit widespread memorializing and analysis- it’s another reminder of the kinds of people the research has shown our society chooses to remember, and how they remember them.

One of the more interesting and relatively fair articles I found about Perry came from NPR in 2006 on the occasion of Mel Watkins’ biography of Stepin Fetchit.

Here’s the link to “Stepin Fetchit, Hollywood’s First Black Film Star”.

And here’s Perry’s IMDB page, too.