Highlights from America's Black Broadway

(9) Constance McLaughlin Green, Washington: A History of The Capital, 1800-1950, vol. 2 (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 1962), 506.

(10) Whitehead interview.

(11) Maryrose Reeves Allen, Manuscript Collection, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.

(12) Maida Withers, dance professor, interview by author, 4 November 1993, Washington, D.C., tape recording, George Washington University, Marvin Center.

(13) Ibid.

(14) Susan Phillip, "Hard Work Pays Off for D.C. Ballet Teacher," Afro-American, 31 May 1983.

(15) Ibid.

(16) An Evening to Remember, program, Therrell Smith School of Dance, Cramton Auditorium, Washington, D.C., 15 June 1973; Therrell Smith, oral history interview by author, 12 December 1995, Washington, D.C., tape recording, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, D.C..

(17) An Evening to Remember, program.

(18) Jacqueline Trescott, "The Door Will Always Be Open," The Washington Star, 14 February 1971; Mary Ann French, "Making Her Pointe: Doris Jones, Still Bringing Blacks to the Barre," The Washington Post, 15 May 1993.

(19) Teixeira Nash, oral history interview by author, 14 December 1995, Washington, D.C., tape recording, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, D.C..

(20) French, "Making Her Pointe"; Trescott, "Door Always Open."

(21) Harietta Wallace, "Our Beginning: A Synopsis of `A Factual and Pictorial History of the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet from Its Inception to 1981."

(22) Joyce Mattison Mosso, oral history interview by author, 11 November 1993, Washington, D.C., tape recording, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, D.C.; Frankie Reed, "Jones-Haywood Ballet School Trains Professionals," The Hilltop, 9 November 1973, 6.

(23) Trescott, "Door Always Open"; French, "Making Her Pointe."

Tamara Brown, Graduate Student--Howard University Panel Session: With a Great Beat: African American Culture ASALH Conference, Charleston, South Carolina (October 5, 1906)

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