Ragtime Tumpie

Description:

Tumpie, a young black girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker, longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious street life of St. Louis in the early 1900s.

subjects: Dance,  Juvenile fiction,  Fiction,  African Americans,  Children's fiction,  Dance, fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Saint louis (mo.), fiction,  Ragtime music,  Poverty

People: Josephine Baker (1906-1975)

Places: Saint Louis (Mo.)