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Parents and Grandparents for Airlee Ringgold's Debutante Ball
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Parents and Grandparents for Airlee Ringgold's Debutante Ball

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Airlee Ringgold's four guests at her grandparents home before going to the Debutante Ball in Baltimore 1966. From left-to-right are her grandparents, George and Essie Nickerson, and parents, Eleanor and Sam Ringgold. George and Sam wear black tuxedos. Essie wears a pink dress and Eleanor a green dress with pearls.
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
1966
Airlee Ringgold Johnson
English
original photographs
Black Families - Ringgolds, Debutantes, Cotillions, Prom Courts, SCLFS - The Elks
Debutante balls, Cotillions, Debutantes, African American families, African American fraternal organizationsLord Baltimore Hotel (Baltimore, Md.), Maryland--Kent County Baltimore
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). This license lets others remix, adapt, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. © Airlee R. Johnson