Katherine Dunham
Grace Krueger
History of Katherine
Early Life
Katherine wrote her first story when she was twelve, called "come back to Arizona"
Career continuing
Later in 1941, she married one of the costume designers, John Pratt.
The next year Dunham appeared in the Paramount musical film Star Spangled Rhythm. Later she made a dance school, which the initial enrollment was 350 students.
She and Pratt adopted their 4 year old foster kid Marie-Christine Dunham Pratt,
She went to Haiti with her husband several times, for vacations, and to help out.
She lived her life, going on and doing more movies and having another dance studio in St. Louis Missouri.
1992, at age 83, she actually went on a hunger strike because of the U.S. foreign policy against Haitian boat people for 47 days.
She died May 21, 2006, because of natural causes.