Katherine Mary Dun ham was an African-American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist. Dun ham had one of the most successful dance careers in African-American and European theater of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years

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While a student at the University of Chicago, Dunham took leave and went to the Caribbean to study dance and ethnography. She later returned to graduate and submitted a master's thesis in anthropology. She did not complete the other requirements for the degree, however. She realized that her professional calling was performance.

At the height of her career in the 1940s and 1950s, Dunham was renowned throughout Europe and Latin America and was widely popular in the United States.

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Her father, Albert Millard Dunham, was a descendant of slaves from West Africa and Madagascar.