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Name: The Swans of Harlem
Rating: 4.7 (13 reviews)
Author: Karen Valby
ISBN: 9780593317525

The Swans of Harlem

Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

by Karen Valby

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Apr 30, 2024, 304 pages

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- History, Current Affairs and Religion
- Mid-Atlantic, USA
- New York State
- 1960s & '70s
- 1980s & '90s
- Music and the Arts
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