Above: Clipped from the Pittsburgh Courier, October 17, 1931, page 1.
All clippings discovered through Newspapers.com.
Above: Clipped from the Brooklyn Eagle Magazine, April 16, 1933, page 4.
Above headline clipped from the Pittsburgh Courier, June 9, 1934, section 2, page 8.
Above: Fredi Washington and Louise Beavers in Imitation of Life, clipped from the Pittsburgh Courier, January 12, 1935, page 4.
Above: Clipped from the Kingsport Times (TN), January 28, 1935, page 4.
Above ad clipped from the New York Age, February 2, 1935, page 4.
Below is clipped from the Courier, February 16, 1935, and is followed by an excerpt from the article by Fredi Washington about her experience on Imitation of Life that appeared on the same page.
You can read more about Fredi Washington in a pair of 1994 obituaries: Stephen Bourne at The Independent and Sheila Rule at the New York Times.
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