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Happy Birthday To In 1956 Mitchell became the only black dancer in the New York City Ballet. He soon became a principal with the company, and George Balanchine created several roles for him, notably those in A Midsummer Nights Dream (1962) and Agon (1967). Mitchell was sensitive to the prejudice against Blacks in the world of ballet and determined to form an all-Black ballet company. In 1968 he and Karel Shook founded an integrated school, whose associated company made its debut in 1971 in New York City and at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.
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