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On the eve of the Atlanta premire, in December, 1939, a celebratory Junior League costume ball, for six thousand, managed to recapture, in the words of a local paper, the days at Tara Hall, when every man was a master and every man had a slave. The entertainment that night alternated between the hot music of Kay Kysers swing band and the spirituals of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr.,s Ebenezer Baptist Church choir, which performed in slave attire before a plantation backdrop, and included among the onstage pickaninnies the ministers ten-year-old son, Martin, Jr
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The identity of the sitter is at present unknown, but various symbolic elements suggest it was painted to celebrate her marriage
