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Joyce Bryant, [28 May 1953]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Identifier: 02_16_1953

Scope and Contents

1 3x5 postcard of the cabaret singer

Dates

  • [28 May 1953]

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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Biographical information

She was raised in Oakland, California and was a popular jazz singer in the 1950s.  With her silver tinted hair, she became known as "The Bronze Blonde Bombshell."  Some of her records were banned from the radio waves for being too suggestive.  In 1955 she left show business and attended Oakwood University, a historically black Seventh Day Adventist school in Huntsville, Alabama.

Extent

From the Series: 12 boxes (Carl Van Vechten Collection of African-American Arts & Letters)

Language of Materials

From the Series: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Millersville University Special Collections Repository

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