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Pearl Bailey
(March 29, 1918 – August 17, 1990)
1428 Irving St. NE, Brookland neighborhood, DC.
Bailey lived on Irving Street briefly in the 1930s. She returned to DC in her late 60s to study theology at Georgetown University, earning a BA degree in 1985. She published six books about her life, education and cooking.
Bailey is best known as an actress and singer, winning Tony and Emmy awards for her acting, and appearing in such films as Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess. In later years, President Gerald Ford named her special ambassador to the United Nations and President Ronald Reagan awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Her books are The Raw Pearl (1968), Talking to Myself (1971), Pearl's Kitchen (1973), Duey's Tale (1975), Hurry Up America and Spit (1976), and Between You and Me: A Heartfelt Memoir on Learning, Loving and Living (1989).
1300 Florida Avenue NW, Logan Circle neighborhood, DC.
