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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (729645)	3/6/2006 9:02:45 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Ethel Waters was born in the last decade of the 1800s, as a consequence of her 12-year-old mother’s rape, and raised in a Philadelphia ghetto by her grandmother. She went on to become one of the highest paid entertainers in the 1920s and 1930s. Ethel was the first black woman to sing on the radio (1922) and the first to headline a show at New York’s Palace Theatre. She was also the first black woman to star in a dramatic play on Broadway (1925). She worked with the great black artists of her day: Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington. In her later years, she was nominated for two Academy Awards.