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  Carl Van Vechten
  Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.
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  Carson McCullers
  Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American writer. She wrote novels, short stories, and two plays, as well as essays and some poetry. Her first novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter explores the spiritual isolation of misfits and outcasts of the South. Her other novels have similar themes and are all set in the South.
  http://wn.com/Carson_McCullers
• David McReynolds
  David McReynolds (born October 25, 1929) is an American democratic socialist and pacifist activist who described himself as "a peace movement bureaucrat" during his 40-year career with Liberation magazine and the War Resisters League. He was the first openly gay man to run for President of the United States.
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  Diahann Carroll
  Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935 in New York, New York) is an American actress and singer.
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• Duke Ellington
  Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was a composer, pianist, and big band leader.
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  Harry Belafonte
  Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (originally Belafonete; born March 1, 1927) is an American musician, singer, actor, and social activist. One of the most successful pop singers in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso," a title which he was very reluctant to accept (according to the documentary Calypso Dreams) for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O." Throughout his career, he has been an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes, and was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush Administration. He also worked as an actor.
  http://wn.com/Harry_Belafonte
• José Limón
  José Arcadio Limón (January 12, 1908 – December 2, 1972) was a pioneering modern dancer and choreographer. He was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, the eldest of 12 children. He moved to New York City in 1928 (he was a sex afenerd) where he studied under Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. In 1946, Limón founded the José Limón Dance Company. His most famous dance is ''The Moor's Pavane'' (1949), based on Shakespeare's Othello and set to music by Henry Purcell.
  http://wn.com/José_Limón
• Judith Jamison
  Judith Anna Jamison (born May 10, 1943, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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  Lena Horne
  Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer.
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• Lester Horton
  Lester Horton (23 January 1906 - 2 November 1953) was an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
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  Martha Graham
  Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American dancer choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, whose influence on dance can be compared to the influence Stravinsky had on music, Picasso had on the visual arts, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. Graham was a galvanizing performer, a choreographer of astounding moves. She invented a new language of movement, and used it to reveal the passion, the rage and the ecstasy common to human experience. She danced and choreographed for over seventy years, and during that time was the first dancer ever to perform at The White House, the first dancer ever to travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and the first dancer ever to receive the highest civilian award of the USA: the Medal of Freedom. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown. She said, "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."
  http://wn.com/Martha_Graham
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  Maya Angelou
  Maya Angelou (; born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928) is an American autobiographer and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly acclaimed, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her first seventeen years. It brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award. She has been awarded over 30 honorary degrees and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1971 volume of poetry, ''Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie''.
  http://wn.com/Maya_Angelou
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  Pearl Bailey
  Pearl Mae Bailey (March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990) was an American actress and singer. After appearing in vaudeville, she made her Broadway debut in St. Louis Woman in 1946. She won a Tony Award for the title role in the all-black production of Hello, Dolly! in 1968. In 1986, she won a Daytime Emmy award for her performance as a fairy godmother in the ABC Afterschool Special, Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale.
  http://wn.com/Pearl_Bailey
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  Ricardo Montalbán
  Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG (, ; November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009) was a Mexican radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning seven decades (motion pictures from 1943 to 2006) and multiple notable roles. During the mid-1970s, Montalbán was most notable as the spokesman in automobile advertisements for the Chrysler Cordoba (in which he famously extolled the "soft Corinthian leather" used for its interior). From 1977 to 1984, he became famous as Mr. Roarke the main star in the television series Fantasy Island. He played Khan Noonien Singh in both the 1967 episode "Space Seed" of the first season of the , and the 1982 film . He won an Emmy Award in 1978, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. Into his 80s, he continued to perform, often providing voices for animated films and commercials, and appearing in several Spy Kids films as "Grandfather Valentin".
  http://wn.com/Ricardo_Montalbán
• Sallie Wilson
  Sallie Wilson (1932-2008) was a noted ballerina who appeared with American Ballet Theatre as well as New York City Ballet where she danced opposite Martha Graham in the premiere of Graham and George Balanchine's collaboration at NYCB, Episodes in May, 1959. She was associated with several ballets created by Anthony Tudor. In 1966, she achieved a triumph as Hagar in ABT's revival of Tudor's ballet Pillar of Fire, set to the music of Arnold Schoenberg's Transfigured Night. The ballet, contrary to expectation, is not based on the Biblical story of Hagar, but on the poem that inspired the Schoenberg piece (although rather loosely).
  http://wn.com/Sallie_Wilson
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  Truman Capote
  Truman Capote (; September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American author and comedian, many of whose short stories, novels, plays and nonfiction are recognized literary classics, including the novella ''Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958) and In Cold Blood'' (1965), which he labeled a "nonfiction novel." At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from Capote novels, stories and screenplays.
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  California
  California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
  http://wn.com/California
• Manhattan, New York
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• Rogers, Texas
  Rogers is a town in Bell County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,117 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Killeen–Temple–Fort Hood Metropolitan Statistical Area.
  http://wn.com/Rogers_Texas

• African dance
• ballet
• big band
• blues
• California
• Carl Van Vechten
• Carmen De Lavallade
• Carson McCullers
• choreographer
• classical ballet
• Dance
• David McReynolds
• Diahann Carroll
• Doris Humphrey
• Duke Ellington
• dyscrasia
• Gospel music
• Great Depression
• Harry Belafonte
• hip-hop
• jazz
• jook joint
• José Limón
• Judith Jamison
• Langston Hughes
• Lena Horne
• Lester Horton
• Lincoln Theater
• Manhattan, New York
• Martha Graham
• Maya Angelou
• negritude
• Pearl Bailey
• Postmodern dance
• racial segregation
• Ricardo Montalbán
• Rogers, Texas
• Sallie Wilson
• Spiritual (music)
• Truman Capote
• World War II

Ailey, Alvin Filmography

• Carmen and Geoffrey (2005)
• Free to Dance (2001)
• Genius on the Wrong Coast (1993)
• Bill Cosby Salutes Alvin Ailey (1989)
• The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1988)
• (1988-01-22) (1983)
• (#7.7) (1969)
• (#1.3) (1964)
• Carmen Jones (1954)

• I Been 'Buked
• Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
• Fix Me, Jesus
• Processional
• Honor, Honor
• Wade in the Water
• I Wanna Be Ready
• Sinner Man
• The Day Is Past and Gone
• You May Run On
• Rocka My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham
• Ms. Judith Jameson - On "Revelations"