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Nell Irvin Painter
b. 8-2-1942; Houston, TX
Historian and artist Nell Irvin Painter is the author of seven books and numerous articles and reviews. Her latest book, The History of White People, was released in March, 2010. Painter is the Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University. |
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Rosa Parks
b. 2-4-1913; Tuskegee, AL
d. 10-24-2005; Detroit, MI
"I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people." Described by some as "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks is best known for being arrested for refusing to giver her seat to a white man on a racially segregated Montgomery, AL, bus. Her action led to a successful 380-day boycott of Montgomery buses and a Supreme Court ruling against segregation.
• more Rosa Parks posters
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Ann Petry
née Lane
b. 10-12-1908; Old Saybrook, CT
d. 4-28-1997; CT
Ann Petry became the first black woman writer with book sales topping a million copies for her novel The Street (1946). She had practiced pharmacy, following her father's footsteps, prior to beginning her career as a writer in 1938.
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Pearl Primus
b. 11-29-1919; Trinidad and Tobago
d. 10-29-1994
Pearl Primus, a dancer, choreographer and anthropologist, played an important role in the presentation of African dance to American audiences.
Primus, who was trained in classical and preclassical dance by the master teacher Louis Horst and studied with such great dance pioneers as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Hanya Holm and Charles Weidman, also received a Ph.D. degree in anthropolgy from New York University.
In July 1991 she was awarded the national Medal of Arts by President Bush, the highest honor given by the National Endowment for the Arts.
• Dancing in the Light: Six Dance Compositions By African American Choreographers / Asadata Dafora, Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, Talley Beatty, Donald McKayle, Bill T. Jones, DVD
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