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1962 Marguerite Belafonte Nuffie Calloway Coretta Scott King milliner Linda Page

1962 Marguerite Belafonte Nuffie Calloway Coretta Scott King milliner Linda Page

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1962 Marguerite Belafonte, Nuffie Calloway & Lynette Taylor with noted African-American hat designer Linda Page at Page's International Hat Show Luncheon at Hotel Commodore, New York City. All four are wearing  Linda Page designs.
In her autobiography "My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr." (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969) Coretta Scott King stated on page 338:
"Linda Page, a close friend who is a milliner in New York, designed my hat and veil for the funeral and was very helpful with shopping and getting the children ready".

Marguerite Belafonte was born on October 12, 1923 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as Frances Marguerite Byrd.
She was an actress, best known for Night of the Quarter Moon (1959). She was
married to Harry Belafonte. She died on February 15, 1998 in Washington
D.C.

Zulme "Nuffie" MacNeal Calloway (August 24, 1915 - October 13, 2008) was married to the famous Cab Calloway for more than 50 years. A graduate of Howard University with a Master's degree in Sociology, she worked as an assistant to Thurgood Marshall, and had a long career in Civil Rights.




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