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Eartha Kitt was an entertainer who fit the by now familiar pattern of other African-American entertainers who born here.. She was an African-American celebrity who was born in South Carolina but made her fame and career elsewhere.

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As we continue our observance of Black History Month , here's a profile of entertainer Eartha Kitt which originally ran on February 6, 2011.

Born in 1927 in North, S.C., Kitt met with abuse from the black family with whom she lived because she looked too white, according to a profile of her published by The New York Times.