![]() This story of Kingslow appearing like a specter in a Chicago restaurant became part of family lore, Jefferson told me. By 1963, just four years after that essay on her nervous breakdown, Kingslow was already popping up in “Whatever Happened to. Kingslow performed regularly on progressive Chicago radio shows and was eventually blacklisted during the Red Scare. She cofounded a local theater company, the DuBois Players, and starred on Broadway she worked in the PR department of NBC and Provident hospital on Washington Park, where Jefferson’s father ran the pediatrics department. Kingslow would not, and then wrote about the experience (“I Refuse to Pass”) for a 1950 issue of Negro Digest a decade later, she wrote bluntly for Ebony about her mental health problems. Here was Janice Kingslow, their sorority sister, but also, Janice Kingslow, the Evanston native and light-skinned Black actor once offered a Hollywood contract on the condition that she would change her name and pass as white on screen. ![]()
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