Frankie Manning – The Ambassador of Lindy Hop

Whyte’s Hopping Maniacs performing

Whyte’s Hopping Maniacs performing with “Le Cotton Club de New York” at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, summer 1937. (left to right) Naomi Waller and Frankie Manning, Lucille Middleton and Jerome Williams, Mildred Cruse and Billy Williams.
Photo credit: studio c. bracken


Frankie Manning Foundation

For more in depth information on Frankie’s history and information on supporting his legacy, please go to the Frankie Manning Foundation


New York Times

Lindy Hop is Back
Cemetery Plot Next to an Idol


Books

Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop 
By Frankie Manning and Cynthia R. Millman, Published by Temple University Press (2007)

Available: Amazon and Tempe University Press


Blog Posts

Saved by Swing from Emily Schwartz Greco on Frankie Manning


Videos

Frankie Manning Tribute Video

Hellzapoppin’

Frankie Manning – Charleston – Spirit Moves

Tommy Greco and Emily Schwartz Greco created this tribute documentary in 2003, when Frankie Manning was 88 years young. It features interviews with him, along with Norma Miller, Dawn Hampton, Jean Veloz, Ray Phelps, Erik Robison, Yuval Hod, and Nathalie Gomes, plus footage of the DC-Baltimore lindy hop / swing scene at that time.