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Before Dr. King Jr. Katherine Dunham was an activist. She supported black people and their equal rights. Visiting Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and several other places she displayed the beauty of the black culture and dance on stage. Dunham had been studying and creating her new art form all over the world, until her and The Katherine Dunham Company were subject to several acts of discrimination. Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream about blacks and whites uniting as equals, there was Katherine Dunham. Dunham was experiencing hate crimes and spoke up for her people and their equal rights. In October 1944, Dunham addressed the audience in Louisville, Kentucky and announced that she would not be returning until the city desegregated its theaters. When she and her company visited these segregated towns, they would only allow fair colored skin people in. If you remember, Dunham’s husband was white...