Vintage Black Glamour

Eva Ross & The Distinguished Ladies, 1930. [Eva Ross Family Album] ©WaheedPhotoArchive, 2011

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Piece of Cake

[Black Bride Series]

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“The Cotton Club was a joint run by hoods. It was a cabaret where Negro people weren’t allowed, that Negro people couldn’t attend. But they could make a living there.” Lena Horne in a 1963 interview with Herbert Feinstein, reprinted in the August 1963 issue of Ebony.

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Legendary dancer Carmen de Lavallade on the cover of the June 30, 1954 issue of Hue magazine, a Johnson publication.

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