Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham was born on June 22, 1909, in Chicago. Her father Albert was a descendant of enslaved people taken from Madagascar and West Africa. Her mother, Fanny June, was French Canadian. She had an older brother named Albert Jr. Her mother died when Dunham was four years old. She and her brother went to go live with their aunt, Lulu. Her father married Annette Poindexter in 1915. Dunham and her brother returned to live with their father and stepmother. Dunham later went to the University of Chicago.