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Wed, 01.31.1934

A Black Woman Performs at the White House

Etta Moten 1933

*On this date in 1934, Etta Moten sang for President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at a White House Dinner.

It was the first time in the 20th century that a Black performed at the White House.

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