Evelyn Cunningham of the Pittsburgh Courier was a statuesque redhead who stood 6 feet tall in high heels, according to a description in Mark Whitaker’s critically acclaimed 2017 book “Smoketown” that chronicled black Pittsburgh. Cunningham also turned heads in the working-class city because she dressed in the latest New York fashions, accented with her signature pearl necklace.
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