Abdi Warsame is of what heritage, the first of which people came to the US in the 1920s?
Somali Americans Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s. They were followed by students pursuing higher studies in the 1960s and 1970s, by the late 1970s through the late 1980s and early 1990s more Somalis arrived. However, it was not until the mid and late 1990s when the civil war in Somalia broke out that the majority of Somalis arrived in the United States. The Somali community in the U.S. is now among the largest in the Somali diaspora.
Jimmy Mordecai Jimmy Mordecai also known as James Mordecai was a Harlem-based jazz tap dancer in the 1920s and 1930s. James Mordecai was born in New York City in 1905. His father was Samuel Mordecai and his mother Sara Cunningham immigrated into these United States from British West Indies in 1901 through Cuba. He was in the cast of a 1924 touring show called "Cotton Land," with music by James P. Johnson. He was a member of a popular dance trio, Wells, Mordecai and Taylor (with Dickie Wells and Ernest Taylor -- the trio also was known as the Hot Feet Boys and the Three Klassy Kids), with whom he performed at the Cotton Club in 1930 with a Duke Ellington revue called "Brown Sugar (Sweet But Unrefined)." In that revue, he danced with Cora LaRedd, a renowned tap dancer active at the time.