Come home Charley Patton is a memoir documenting the Civil Rights Era and contemporary southern culture. Ralph Lemon's research on the African American experience intertwines personal anecdotes and family remembrances with diaristic accounts of the making of a dance, as Lemon jo…
This book chronicles the life of dancer Janet Collins, the first African-American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. Born in New Orleans in 1917 and raised in Los Angeles, she endured an era in which racial bias prevailed, and subsequently prevented her from appearing in…