Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) a black person.

1944		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam News 16 Sept. 12A: Look here, Miss Woogie [...] I’m your boogie.
1961		C. Himes Pinktoes (1989) 158: Woogie [...] that’s er, ah, what they [i.e. blacks] call their own kind I believe.
1967		A. Baraka Tales (1969) 79: Five or six hundred hopped-up woogies tumbled out into Belmont Avenue.
1984		G. Tate ‘Stagolee Versus the Proper Negro’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 49: That, lo and behold, we’re now fully assimilated citizens of the republic – given so many starlit woogies showboating all over the Grammies [...] and the Hollyweird screen?