The HistoryMakers video oral history with Mildred Cruzat.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 35 min., 41 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:Cruzat, Mildred, -- 1927- -- Interviews.
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11336633
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Mildred Cruzat
Mildred Cruzat
Other authors / contributors:Cruzat, Mildred, 1927- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 August 26.
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Summary:Dance instructor Mildred Cruzat was born on February 17, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan. She attended Highland Park Junior College in Detroit; and the American School of Ballet at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In 1949, she joined the Larry Steele Affair, a New York City dance troupe. In 1950, she joined Ziggy Johnson's School of Ballet in Detroit and became an instructor. In 1951, she was a performer on the Spider Burke TV Show, the first African American television show in St. Louis. She left the program to raise her three children. In 1975, Cruzat returned to dancing at the Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre. In 1981, she joined the Tony Wilson Dance Company. In 1983, she opened the Millie Cruzat Total Fitness Center. Cruzat was`active on a number of boards including the Chicago Urban League, and devoted her life to fostering the development of African American youth.