Episode Synopsis "ROUTES' Roots - Kathrine Dunham"
ROUTES Roots is a podcast by ROUTES, A Guide to African American Culture. This month our 5th podcast episode features the famous African-American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist Katherine Dunham. She is also know as the "matriarch and queen mother of black dance" and died May 21, 2006 (aged 96) in New York City, U.S. Author of the text is Theda Palmer-Saxton PhD and your show host for this episode is Margorie Johnson. Photo: Phyllis Twachtman, World Telegram staff photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons