Tag: Dance
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Eartha Kitt
Austin Hansen photographed Kitt leading a dance group at the Harlem YMCA in the early 1950’s. Eartha had been a professional dancer, dancing and touring with the Katherine Dunham Company between 1943 and 1948 before she became more widely known as a singer. Note the photo below, and the vents under the windows as the…
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Harlem Women Bussed To New Jersey
This film from the Library of Congress shows Harlem women (and one man) bussed to New Jersey during WWII to work in a munition factory. The gathering is clearly on a winter’s day, with snow on the ground. You can see that the pickup for the war work was at Adam Clayton Powell and 135th…
