Mildred Dixon
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Mildred Dixon was a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, who became a longtime companion of composer and musician Duke Ellington, and manager of his company. She was born in Boston, Mas
Mildred Dixon
Mildred Dixon, companion of Duke Ellington
Africville
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Africville was a small community of predominantly African Nova Scotians located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It developed on the southern shore of Bedford Basin and existed from the early 1800s to
Mildred Dixon
…became a longtime companion of composer and musician Duke Ellington, and manager of his company. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents from Africville, Nova Scotia. She became a dancer and moved to New York in the mid-1920s, where she became known as part of the dance couple, "Mildred and Henri…
Founders William, John & Thomas Brown listed on The Africville Monument at Seaview Memorial Park.
Africville Church (est. 1849), reconstructed in 2011 as part of the government's Africville Apology
Monument at the site of Africville beside the A. Murray MacKay Bridge
Text on the site of Africville, near the Seaview Baptist Church in Halifax, NS, Canada.