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She dreamed of dancing on Broadway to later
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At the age of fourteen, I quit my job as a domestic worker and entered
society woman who wanted to show Parisians “real” Negro music and
the black vaudeville circuit. Audiences either liked or hated my crazy
dance, gave me a ticket to go to Paris and perform. I became an African
antics and frantic dancing. It was a dream of mine to be a chorus girl on
American expatriate, joining a French troupe as lead dancer, singer and
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I took Paris by storm with my scandalous costumes and dance moves.
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States and refused to entertain to segregated audiences. Through the
early sixties, 1 gave benefit concerts for American civil rights groups.
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In 1975,1 had died of a fatal cerebral hemorrhage - fifty years after
arriving in Paris. 1 was one of the few performers who was ever given a
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