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((for|the basketball coach|Clayton Bates (basketball)))
((More citations needed|date=August 2016))
((Infobox person
| name               = Peg Leg Bates
| image              = 5412-Peg Leg Bates Performing at Denver MD Marathon.jpg
| alt                = 
| caption            = Peg Leg Bates performing at the Muscular Dystrophy Marathon, December 1954, Denver, Colorado Colosseum
| birth_name         = Clayton Bates
| birth_date         = ((Birth date|1907|10|11))
| birth_place        = [[Fountain Inn, South Carolina]], US<ref name=NYT/>
| death_date         = ((Death date and age|1998|12|08|1907|10|11))
| death_place        = Fountain Inn, South Carolina<ref name=NYT/>
| nationality        = [[Americans|American]]
| other_names        = 
| occupation         = [[Tap dance]]r
| years_active       = 
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| awards             = [[Order of the Palmetto]]<ref name=NYT/>))
'''Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates''' (October 11, 1907 &ndash; December 6, 1998) was an African-American entertainer from [[Fountain Inn, South Carolina]], United States.

==Life and career==

===Early life===
Peg Leg Bates was born Clayton Bates on October 10, 1907, in [[Fountain Inn, South Carolina]],<ref name=tribune2 /> the son of Rufus and Emma W Stewart Bates.<ref>[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=FS1BrazilImmigrationCards&h=5439494&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=WaJ49&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&rhSource=60525] On an entertainment tour to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1940, Bates listed his parents as Emma Bates and "Rufas".</ref><ref>[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&indiv=try&h=164760364 1910 U.S. Federal Census]. Retrieved March 2017.</ref> His mother was a sharecropper.<ref name=tribune2 /> By the age of five,<ref name=tribune2/> Bates was dancing on the streets of Fountain Inn for pennies and nickels; he lost a leg at the age of 12 in a [[cotton gin]] accident.<ref name=tribune/> His uncle, Wit, made his crude first "peg leg"<ref name=tribune /> after returning home from World War I and finding his nephew disabled. Bates subsequently taught himself to [[tap dance]] with a wooden [[peg leg]].<ref name=NYT>((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/08/arts/peg-leg-bates-one-legged-dancer-dies-at-91.html|title=Peg Leg Bates, One-Legged Dancer, Dies at 91|author=Dunning, Jennifer|date=December 8, 1998|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=August 7, 2016))</ref><ref name=tribune />  By the time he was 15, Bates was again adept enough at dancing to enter amateur talent shows, working his way up to employment through the [[Theater Owners Booking Association]], which booked entertainers for African-American theaters in the US.<ref name=NYT />

===Career===
[[File:541211-Peg Leg Bates Backstage- Denver MD Marathon.jpg|thumb|Peg Leg Bates backstage after performing at the Denver Muscular Dystrophy Marathon, December 1954]]
At 20, Bates was dancing on [[Broadway theater|Broadway]].<ref name=tribune2>((cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-08-01/features/8502200351_1_first-resort-new-york-blacks-country|title=For New York Blacks, Peg Leg Bates Is The First Resort|author=Winerip, Michael|date=August 1, 1985|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=August 8, 2016))</ref> In the early 1940s, at the [[Paradise Club (Atlantic City, New Jersey)|Paradise Club]] in [[Atlantic City, New Jersey]], his "Jet Plane" finale, in which he leaped over the stage, landed on his wooden leg, and then executed a series of backward hops accompanied by trumpet blasts from the band, saw his leg puncture the wooden stage floor. It took half an hour to pull him out. After that, the stage floor was reinforced with metal sheeting.<ref>* ((cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoGKfZqdLlMC&pg=PA16|title=Tales of South Jersey: Profiles and Personalities|first1=Jim|last1=Waltzer|first2=Tom|last2=Wilk|year=2001|page=23|publisher=[[Rutgers University Press]]|isbn=0813530075))</ref> Bates performed on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]'' at least 22 times,<ref name=tribune>((cite news|title=Clayton 'Peg Leg' Bates, A Virtuoso Tap Dancer|date=December 10, 1998|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-12-10/news/9812100141_1_mr-bates-rusty-e-frank-clayton-peg-leg-bates |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=March 17, 2015))</ref> and had two command performances before the King and Queen of the United Kingdom in 1936 and then again in 1938.<ref name=NYT/> During a [[United Service Organizations|USO]] hospital tour, he partnered with [[vaudeville]] tap dancer [[Dixie Roberts]], who said "he danced better with one leg than anyone else could with two."((citation needed|date=August 2016)) He was part of the first [[Louis Armstrong]] tour of Britain in the mid-1950s.((citation needed|date=August 2016))

===Peg Leg Bates Country Club===
He owned and operated the Peg Leg Bates Country Club in [[Kerhonkson, New York]], from 1951 to 1987, along with his wife Alice E. Bates.<ref name=NYT/>  This made Bates the first black resort owner in Ulster County in the Catskill Mountains, the famous [[Borscht Belt]] of Jewish resorts, hotels, and bungalow colonies.<ref name=NYT/> He began with four rooms at his country club resort; by 1985, there were 110 units for guests.<ref name=tribune2/> He leased the resort in 1989, due to the death of his wife in 1987.<ref name=NYT/>

===Later life===
Though Bates retired from show business in 1989, he still performed for various groups, including senior citizens, children and disabled individuals.<ref name=NYT/> He was also active in the local [[Ellenville, New York|Ellenville]] [[Lions Club]], and during the last 10 years of his life he traveled regularly to schools, senior citizen centers, and nursing homes showing a video about his life and talking about his life experiences.<ref>((Cite web |date=2023-02-01 |title=Ulster County celebrates Black History Month with Peg Leg Bates exhibit |url=https://www.timeshudsonvalley.com/stories/ulster-county-celebrates-black-history-month-with-peg-leg-bates-exhibit,64426 |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=My Hudson Valley |language=en))</ref> He also helped found a local Senior Citizens Center in the Ellenville / Kerhonkson area.<ref>((Cite web |last=Brame |first=Karen D. |date=2021-10-15 |title=Clayton “Peg Leg” Bates |url=https://blacklistedculture.com/clayton-peg-leg-bates/ |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=BlacklistedCulture.com |language=en-US))</ref>

Bates was the subject of the 1992 [[documentary]] ''The Dancing Man: Peg Leg Bates'', produced by Hudson West Productions, directed by Dave Davidson, and broadcast on [[PBS]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1324857/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1 ''The Dancing Man: Peg Leg Bates''] on [[IMDb]]</ref><ref>[https://hudsonwest.org/our-films/peglegbates/ Hudson West Productions promotional webpage for ''The Dancing Man: Peg Leg Bates'']</ref>

==Death==
He collapsed on his way to church a day after performing at an award ceremony in his honor at [[Hillcrest High School (Simpsonville, South Carolina)|Hillcrest High School]] and to receive the [[Order of the Palmetto]], on December 6, 1998, at the age of 91.<ref name=NYT/>

==Family==
Bates had wife, Alice E., and a daughter, Melodye Bates-Holden.<ref name=NYT/><ref name=tribune/>

==Legacy==
The citizens of Fountain Inn erected a life-size statue that can be viewed in front of the city hall and [[Robert Quillen|Robert Quillen's]] library.<ref name=NYT/><ref name=tribune/><ref name="sciway">((cite web|title=Peg Leg Bates - Fountain Inn, South Carolina|url=http://www.sciway.net/sc-photos/greenville-county/peg-leg-bates.html|website=www.sciway.net/|access-date=August 11, 2016))</ref>

There are signs at the entrance of the city saying "Peg Leg Bates' home town."((citation needed|date=August 2016))

[[U.S. Route 209]] in [[Ulster County, New York]] has been named the "Clayton Peg Leg Bates Memorial Highway".<ref name="RA">((cite web|last1=Cook|first1=Steve|title=Kingston, New York: Peg Leg Bates Highway|url=http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/14654|website=RoadsideAmerica.com|access-date=August 11, 2016|date=February 2, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814200907/http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/14654|archive-date=August 14, 2016|url-status=dead))</ref>

He was the subject of the children's book ''Knockin' On Wood: Starring Peg Leg Bates'', written and illustrated by [[Lynne Barasch]], and published in 2012.<ref>[https://www.lynnebarasch.com/knockin__on_wood_28258.htm Lynne Barasch's promotional webpage for ''Knockin' On Wood: Starring Peg Leg Bates'']</ref>

==Honors==
In 1991, Bates was awarded the [[Flo-Bert Award]] for being an outstanding figure in the field of tap dancing.<ref name=sciway/><ref name="Flo-bert">((cite web|title=The Flo-Bert Awards|url=http://www.florencemills.com/flobert.htm#1991|website=The Flo-Bert Awards|access-date=August 11, 2016))</ref>

In December 1998, Bates performed at an award ceremony at Hillcrest High School in his honor for receiving the [[Order of the Palmetto]], the highest civilian awarded by the state in his hometown of Fountain Inn, South Carolina.<ref name=NYT/>

Bates was inducted into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2005.<ref name="ATDF">((cite web|last1=Valis Hill|first1=Constance|title=Peg Leg Bates|url=http://www.atdf.org/bios/plbatesbio.html|website=American Tap Dance Foundation|access-date=August 11, 2016))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* ((Find a Grave|21472))
* [http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?MarkerID=9022 Statue of Peg Leg Bates, Fountain Inn, SC]

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