{"id":59554,"date":"2020-02-20T22:21:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59554"},"modified":"2020-02-20T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:22:53","slug":"washington-fredi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59554","title":{"rendered":"Washington, Fredi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadcast41.com\/biography\/washington-fredi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Washington, Fredi<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadcast41.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist<\/a><br \/>\n2019-08-07<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Jeremiah Favara<\/strong>, <strong>Carol Stabile<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Laura Strait<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/broadcast41.com\/biography\/washington-fredi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/broadcast41.com\/sites\/broadcast411.uoregon.edu\/files\/inline-images\/washington_2web.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Dancer, Actress, Journalist<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fredi_Washington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frederika (Fredi) Carolyn Washington<\/a> (1903-1994) was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Savannah,_Georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Savannah, Georgia<\/a>. Like other cultural workers of her generation, she was multitalented, excelling as a dancer, actress, journalist, and activist. Washington began her career as a dancer in the 1920s before going on to a career in film, radio, and the stage in the 1930s and 1940s. Washington was an activist throughout her career, organizing against racism in unions, theaters, television, and film.<\/p>\n<p>Washington was born on December 23, 1903 in Savannah, Georgia. Her father, Robert T. Washington, was a postal worker and her mother, Harriet Walk Ward Washington, was a homemaker.<sup>1<\/sup> Washington was one of five siblings with two brothers, Bubba and Alonzo, and two sisters, Isabel and Rosebud.<sup>2<\/sup>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/broadcast41.com\/biography\/washington-fredi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah Favara, Carol Stabile, and\u00a0Laura Strait<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,459,8,20,25],"tags":[30777,27925,9754,30776,30778,30780,30779],"class_list":["post-59554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-carol-stabile","tag-fredericka-carolyn-washington","tag-fredi-washington","tag-jeremiah-favara","tag-laura-strait","tag-the-broadcast-41","tag-the-broadcast-41-women-and-the-anti-communist-blacklist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59554"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59557,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59554\/revisions\/59557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}