In a world full of other performers jockeying for fame, Fanny enlisted (bribed is more like it) help from the dancers. Dancing was a big thing that she needed to work on to make herself a more marketable talent. She grabbed up all the undergarments in her house and would give them to the dancers in exchange for dance lessons. ... She took a similar approach when it came to getting a song written. " All the other Singers were surrounding Ziegfields two African-American song writers, Joe Jordan and will Marion Cook, hoping to get a song written especially for them." ... Fanny could dance and sin...

• Word Count: 779
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The author takes us through the life of a possible African American female, another victim of the violent hatred towards minorities. ... The protagonist of the play (The African American woman), goes on to say, "My lover told me: Shush, we have too many stories to carry on our backs like houses, we have struggled too long to let the monsters steal our sleep, sleep, go to sleep". ... I was taught not to dance for a rotten supper on the plates of my enemies. ... The last part of the quote foreshadows this poor woman's fate at the end of all the drama, she says "I want to danc...

• Word Count: 1038
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The only thing that keeps Celie going and full of some sort of hope is her letters to Nettie, who is living as a missionary in Africa. ... She sang and danced and acted provocatively, which I think intrigued Celie. ... Shug helped Celie to find the letter that Albert had been hiding for years, letters from Nettie in Africa. ...

• Word Count: 767
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

She is a 28 year old African American woman with a very fulfilling career as a medical assistant. ... Finally a guy named Geren spots her from across that room, comes over and asks her to dance, she agrees and finds her self have more fun that she expected. ...

• Word Count: 696
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

" Angelou read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Clinton in January of 1993" (Cookson 800). " She was the first African American to do so"(Donegal 1). ... If she could dance naked under palm trees and see her image in the water, she would know. ...

• Word Count: 1242
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

It's also a woman who loves music, loves to dance, and who loves her spirit. ... "Although she received a lot of praise for her novel, Walker received criticism from some in the African-American community who thought her novel portrayed black men in negative stereotypical fashion as abusers and rapists." ...

• Word Count: 949
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School