By Ashley Adkins
On the 14th day of August 1894, the little town of Alderson produced a freckle-faced, red-haired baby girl whose larger-than-life personality would catapult her into the limelight of European stardom at a time when the color of her skin kept her own country’s heart closed to her unapologetic charms.
Read more in the Friday, February 12, edition of The West Virginia Daily News.
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