Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries. | Joan Myers Brown And The Audacious Hope Of The Black Ballerina by Ananya Chatterjea, Paperback | Indigo Chapters