Editing Stepin Fetchit (section)

==Vaudeville career==
In his teens, Perry became a comic [[character actor]]. By the age of 20, Perry had become a [[vaudeville]] artist and the manager of a traveling carnival show. His stage name was a contraction of "step and fetch it". His accounts of how he adopted the name varied, but generally he claimed that it originated when he performed a vaudeville act with a partner. Perry won money betting on a racehorse named "Step and Fetch It", and his partner and he decided to adopt the names "Step" and "Fetchit" for their act. When Perry became a solo act, he combined the two names, which later became his professional name.<ref>{{cite book |last=Watkins |first=Mel |title=Stepin Fetchit: The Life and Times of Lincoln Perry |publisher=[[Pantheon Books]] |year=2005 |isbn=0-375-42382-6 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/stepinfetchitlif00watk/page/32 32]–33 |url=https://archive.org/details/stepinfetchitlif00watk |url-access=registration }}</ref>