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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Fay Ray.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Fay Ray.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Ray, Fay
  • Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer)
  • Burghelea, Neculai
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 4 min., 43 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Dancer Fay Ray was born on October 11, 1919 in Louisiana. At age eleven, Ray left home and boarded a train to Shreveport, Louisiana to join the Vaudeville circuit. She learned to tap dance, and at age sixteen, left the circuit to go solo. In 1943, she moved to New York, where she danced in chorus lines at Caf Zanzibar, the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater, performing with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and others. During World War II, Ray moved to Providence, Rhode Island, becoming a certified welder at Walch Kaiser, and danced on the first USO tour. At age fifty, Ray retired from dancing, spending two years welding on the Alaskan Pipe Line. In 1985, she joined the Silver Belles, a senior dance group of former Harlem chorus girls who were featured in the 2006 documentary, Been Rich All My Life. Ray passed away on September 14, 2013, at age 93.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Fay Ray
  • Fay Ray
Subject
  • Ray, Fay > Interviews
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Dancer
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
OCLC
1000519096
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Fay Ray.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
020443
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Event
Recorded New York, New York 2007 October 18.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Dancer.
Added Author
Ray, Fay, interviewee.
Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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