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A dance like starlight : one ballerina's dream
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A dance like starlight : one ballerina's dream
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A young girl growing up in Harlem in the 1950s, whose mother cleans and stitches costumes for a ballet company, dreams of becoming a prima ballerina one day, and is thrilled to see a performance of Janet Collins, the first "colored" prima ballerina.
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Authors
Dempsey, Kristy
Cooper, Floyd
Subjects
Collins, Janet, 1917-2003--Fiction.
Ballet dancing--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Discrimination--Fiction.
New York (N.Y.)--History--1951---Fiction.
Language
English