Ragtime Tumpie

By Alan Schroeder

Subjects: Saint louis (mo.), fiction, Dance, fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Dance, Juvenile fiction

Description: Tumpie, a young black girl who will later become famous as the dancer Josephine Baker, longs to find the opportunity to dance amid the poverty and vivacious street life of St. Louis in the early 1900s.