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Article: Modern dance pioneer Pearl Primus, 74, dies
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- New York Amsterdam News
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- November 5, 1994
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Mel Tapley
New York Amsterdam News
11-05-1994
Modern dance pioneer Pearl Primus, 74, dies.
If laughter has been discovered to have healing effects, Pearl Primus, who died Saturday in her home in New Rochelle, N.Y., at 74, after a brief illness, was convinced that the joy of dancing might have similar properties.
With a bachelor's degree in biology and premed sciences from college, an institution which -- in the '40s -- was said to admit only the brightest young women, Primus was on her way to becoming a doctor.
Unable to find a laboratory job because of racial discrimination, she enrolled in the National Youth Administration. Following the traditional logic of government, the young science ...
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