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Black Dance in America: A History Through Its People

A History Through Its People

by James Haskins

232 pages · 1992

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The story of extraordinary, talented people like Alvin Ailey, Bill Robinson, Katherine Dunham, and Pearl Primus--who excelled not only in white forms of dance, but created new forms--chronicles their successes despite the considerable stumbling blocks of racism and poverty. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Photos.

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