The thread of that rich fabric traces back to early 20th century Harlem, New York. The Eures made their way to the northeast following a progression of freedom from Louisiana to the cotton, peanut and tobacco plantations of Virginia to the Carolinas to New York and New Jersey. The man who transplanted the family line to Omaha, Albert Eure Sr., was a dancer’s son. In the mid-1940s, he married budding actress and activist Dorothy Jane Watson whose father was a storyteller and sister a minister. The dye was cast.
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