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Authors: Margo Jefferson

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Irma, photographed by Gordon Parks, 1940–41. Parks was working at the South Side Community Art Center as its official photographer and learning his craft alongside such artists as Charles White and Margaret Goss Burroughs. Marva Louis, the model and wife of Joe Louis, had seen Parks’s fashion photography in Minneapolis and offered to help find him work if he moved to Chicago.

Bernard Jefferson and Ronald Jefferson with their band instruments in Los Angeles, c. 1922.

Irma and Ronald, just engaged, in Los Angeles, 1941.

United States Army Captain Ronald Jefferson at the all-Negro base in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, c. 1944. He was in the army from 1942 to 1946.

Irma and Ronald with their daughter Denise in their Bronzeville, Chicago, apartment, c. 1946.

Margo Jefferson, c. 1950.

Denise reflecting and reflecting on her image, c. 1951.

Margo and Denise in Canada, during the family’s cross-country trip, c. 1956.

Irma hosting a New Year’s Eve party in a mandarin Chinese jacket and with a Claudette Colbert bob, c. 1956.

U-High’s varsity cheerleaders. Co-captain Margo is in the back row, center, 1964.

Margo’s high school yearbook photo, 1964.

Table of Contents

Other Titles

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Acknowledgments

Notes

Illustrations

Table of Contents

Other Titles

Copyright

Contents

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Acknowledgments

Notes

Illustrations

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