found: Bachelor of Arts. John Erskine's Bachelor of Arts [MP] 1934: credits (Cast, Stepin Fetchit)
found: Halliwell's Filmgoer's companion, 1983 (Stepin Fetchit; b. 1898; AKA Lincoln Perry; American Negro comedian)
found: Performing arts biog. master index, 1981 (Stepin Fetchit; b. 1902 (4 sources) b. 1892 (2 sources) b. 1898 (2 sources) b. 1896 (1 source); d. 1977)
found: NY times, 11/21/85 (Stepin Fetchit, first black to win film fame, dies at 83; resided at Motion Picture and Television County House since 1977)
found: Washington post, 11-21-85 (Stepin Fetchit, 83, dies; pioneer black film actor; b. Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry in Key West, Fla.; d. Nov. 19, 1985 at Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif.)