2008 black entertainment calendar now on sale
Anna Bailey, who came to Las Vegas from New York with her husband, Bob Bailey, in 1955 to perform at the Moulin Rouge Hotel, is featured on the cover of the seventh annual Historic Black Entertainment Calendar for 2008.
Her calendar cover was taken in 1948 when she was 20 years old and in London performing as an international dancer at the Palladium. Anna and her husband still reside in Las Vegas.
The calendar can be purchased at local Borders Book stores or through the national Black Enterprise Magazine (www.blackenterprise .com/cal8).
The nationally distributed calendar features one-of-a-kind historic photos of black entertainers from the '40s, '50s and '60s.
The 2008 Historic Black Entertainment Calendar showcases entertainers such as Pearl Bailey, Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Jordan, Dorothy Dandridge, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong and The Four Step Brothers with Prince Spencer.
The theme of the 2008 calendar is racial harmony showing how nonminority entertainers such as Bob Hope, Danny Thomas, Bing Crosby, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Humphrey Bogart broke color barriers and worked with black entertainers.
