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Taylor Bythewood-Porter

20th Century Onyx Club, Oxnard, 1964 debutantes, 1964. Reproduction. Courtesy Black Gold Cooperative Library System.

‘Rights and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture’ at the California African American Museum

EXHIBITION, FEATURE / 24 June 2021

In November 1961, President John F. Kennedy and California Governor Pat Brown greeted 28 young ladies as they made their debut into society during The Links, Incorporated Los Angeles Chapter’s 10th annual cotillion at the …

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Please Mammy, ca. 1899. Photographer unknown. Courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Making Mammy – A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840 – 1940

FEATURE / 23 January 2020

An exhibition at The California African American Museum curated by Tyree Boyd-Pates, History Curator and Program Manager, CAAM, Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Assistant History Curator, CAAM, and Brenda Stevenson, Professor and Nickoll Family Endowed Chair in History …

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