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A magazine feature on the Dunham School in Glamour

Dunham writes a letter to Edwin Embree, head of the Rosenwald Foundation, to request funding and support for the Dunham School of Dance and Theatre.

This program provides the course instructors, times, and tuitions of the winter quarter term in 1946, which spanned from January 14 to April 14.

This prospectus details Dunham's development of a "full-fledged inter-racial school of the dance an theatre arts." She has recruited 15 teachers and 225 students, with the hopes of fostering "a future that holds much promise" by serving as "the only…

This article, printed in the Pittsburgh Courier in November 1944, narrates Katherine Dunham's opposition to segregated seating at a performance in Louisville, KY.

Embree invites Dunham to join a group for cocktails at the Sherman House Hotel on February 12, 1948.

Through a review of 6 recently-published books, Dunham addresses the injustice of discrimination and the ability for people of her race to "contribute to the goodness and endurance of the nation."

These newspaper articles announce Katherine Dunham's lecture given to the Anthropology Club of the Yale University Graduate School: "The Dance of the West Indies.'

Photo of Katherine Dunham during a performance of the 1940 Broadway hit, "Cabin in the Sky," which she co-choreographed with George Balanchine.

Dunham thanks Embree for the party that the Foundation threw for her after the May 7th performance of the musical that she co-choreographed, "Cabin in the Sky."