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Speaking of glamorous people, the actress Daphne Maxwell Reid (aka the second "Aunt Viv" on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) was the first black homecoming queen at Northwestern University and also the first black woman on the cover of Glamour magazine. Very appropriate!
Wow! Didn't know this! Thank you.
 

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Isabel Washington and accompanying pianist

Old tea:

She was the sister of famed actress Fredi Washington. Isabel married noted politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. but a few years later he started having an affair with famous pianist/singer Hazel Scott and divorced Isabel in early 1945 then married Hazel later on in 1945.
I think she lived her later years on Martha's Vineyard and in an interview she said Adam called her his Bunny Girl- she kept it classy.
 

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Saxophonist Dexter Gordon

Not only was he a Grammy award winner, he also was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category for his performance in the film "Round Midnight"
The book 'Round Midnight by Laura McBride honors this song about early black life and other topics in Las Vegas. That book is fantastic!
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Saxophonist Dexter Gordon

Not only was he a Grammy award winner, he also was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actor in a Leading Role category for his performance in the film "Round Midnight"
 

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Also Cab Calloway was pretty wealthy and popular at that time. He was a MAJOR player like most successful musicians lol and a great talent.
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Ja'Net Dubois' death certificate 'lists Cab Calloway as her secret biological father'

"Ja'Net DuBois, who played the vivacious neighbor Willona Woods on 'Good Times' and composed and sang the theme song for “The Jeffersons,” has died. DuBois' song 'Movin' on Up' provided a joyous intro to 'The Jeffersons' during the show's 10-season run."

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Pearl Bailey who had such talent, beauty and style.
Yes. #PearlBailey ! A powerful, beautiful, highly respected influential figure in her era. I read one of her Autobiographies. Fascinating read.
 

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This whole family looks nice and stylish
Portrait of the Stevens Family. Linn Creek, Missouri, circa 1905.
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Nat King Cole and his not so nice wife Maria Cole. She treated her daughter Natalie pretty badly : ( She stole a lot of money from her and was jealous that Natalie became so successful. Natalie wrote a great biography called " Angel On My Shoulder" going into some detail about that... very sad because my cousin used to work with Natalie when she was alive and said despite some of her early addictions she was a very sweet person.
Natalie seemed to have a sweet spirit
 

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By the way, it was a HUGE scandal back in the day when Hazel had an affair with politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and he divorced his first wife Isabel Washington (sister of star of the original version of the movie "Imitation of Life" actress Fredi Washington.)
Powell is another one whose family is very well off and prominent before he even went into politics.

Powell was a philandering pastor from a well off background, but dammit that man was one hell of a politician who fought for Black people. I admire him for that.
 

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Daddy King wanted Martin to marry Mattiwilda, that's why he was cold to Coretta at first. Matti was a childhood friend Martin and his siblings. Her dad said he did not trust the King boy's with his daughters...especially that M.L.
MLK originally wanted to be engaged to a White Woman who was the daughter of a German immigrant food worker when he was in Divinity School.
 

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Nora Holt is best known as the first Black woman to earn a master’s in the United States, but that distinction alone does little to capture her full life. Holt was also highly influential as a composer, singer and music critic.
Holt was born Lena Doulas in either 1895 or 1890 in Kansas City, Kansas. She attended the now-defunct HBCU Western University in 1917 with a bachelor’s degree in music. The following year, Holt earned her history-making degree from the Chicago Musical…
 

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Unidentified Afro Antillano Panamanian girl, 1900s
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A lovely portrait of a woman taken in 1889. Her fashions are so detailed. Beautiful!

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Lottie “the body” Tatum-Graves aka
most gorgeous woman from the 1940s.

American burlesque dancer who performed from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. She was given the nickname "Lottie the Body" when she was a teenager working in modeling. She also became known as the "Black Gypsy Rose Lee" and the "Gypsy Rose Lee of Detroit."
 

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The most interesting part is seeing how many of the Black middle to upper middle class were of all different skin tones. This is why some of the fonts here seem uninformed with the whole “field and house slave” and “paper bag test” thing and make it seem all the comfortable and classy Black folk were fair and nearly white. It wasn’t that simple. Tons of dark skinned folks were in HBCUs, studied law, education, politics, medicine and finance and owned businesses.
 

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This whole family looks nice and stylish
Portrait of the Stevens Family. Linn Creek, Missouri, circa 1905.
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"The Stevens Family." Lynn Creek, Missouri. 1905.

Left to Right: Della F. Stevens, Charles T. Stevens, Eliza Bradshaw Stevens, Eva E. Stevens, William A. Stevens, Florence E. Stevens and Elsie J. Stevens.

Henry Stevens Sr. (1797-1908), born into enslavement, "hid his four children in Missouri caves during the Civil War. After Emancipation, Stevens became an independent farmer in Linn Creek, Mo., where the children and grandchildren in this photo thrived."
 

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The Johnson's, a Black Ozarker family from Franklin County, Missouri, in the northeastern Ozarks. ca 1890's.
 

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Thanks for that info because I just googled "Annie Malone orphanage" and was shocked at how huge that orphange is. She built a huge mansion for those kids, that is incredible and this was back in 1922 she was able to do this...wow.

Wow that’s amazing what Annie Malone did. Unfortunately, that orphanage was most likely packed during the Great Depression.
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Pianist Hadda Brooks

Old tea....

She married some broke Count from Paris who cheated on her with a model sidepiece and then the sidepiece threatened to ruin her career. That scandal was a hot mess!
Hadda was beautiful


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Lol the mistress was on Ebony magazine in 1956 talking about her rhinoplasty.
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Link to interview March 1956 Ebony mag pages 77-82

 

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Ja'Net Dubois' death certificate 'lists Cab Calloway as her secret biological father'

"Ja'Net DuBois, who played the vivacious neighbor Willona Woods on 'Good Times' and composed and sang the theme song for “The Jeffersons,” has died. DuBois' song 'Movin' on Up' provided a joyous intro to 'The Jeffersons' during the show's 10-season run."

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Wow, that is shocking
 

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