The HistoryMakers video oral history with Najwa I.

Nonprofit founder and dancer Najwa I was born Arnell Pugh in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Instructed by Panamanian performer, Jimmy Payne, Najwa studied Afro-Cuban and calypso dance. She graduated from Harrison High School in 1952. That same year, she joined Larry Steele's Smart Affair tour in Australia...

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Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Najwã (Interviewee)
Crowe, Larry F. (Interviewer)
Stearns, Scott (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
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Physical Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 30 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Najwa I
Najwa I
Format: Electronic Video

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