Who was considered the best tap dancer of all time with the cleanest sounding taps making the most complex steps look easy? He also danced with Shirley Temple in the video we watched in class.

Answer: "Bill Robinson" was considered the best tap dancer of all time with the cleanest sounding taps making the most complex steps look easy and he also danced with Shirley Temple in the video watched in class.

Explanation:

Bill Robinson was highlighted as "Mr. Bojangles", the great tap dancer and actor from America, during the first half of the 20th century he was very popular and highly paid black American entertainer.

He flagged off in the era of minstrel shows, developing to Vaudeville, recording industry, Broadway theater, Hollywood movies, radio and television. He utilized his stardom to challenge and overcome numerous racial barriers like he was one of the first Vaudeville and Minstrel performers to appear without the use of blackface makeup, earliest black performers to go individual and cross vaudeville's two-colored rule etc.

Congress proclaimed the May 25 birthday of Robinson as the National Tap Dance Day in 1989.