Katherine Dunham's School of Dance and Cultural Research Flourishes

Throughout the 1950s Katherine Dunham's New York school of dance continued to train generations of dancers in the Afro-Caribbean and African diasporic techniques she had pioneered, while she also continued performing internationally and writing about her anthropological research. Her synthesis of Caribbean, African, and modern dance forms established a permanent tradition in American concert dance. Dunham also made a celebrated protest against racial discrimination during this period, refusing to return to a Louisville theater that had segregated her audience.