She never lost touch with Haiti, where she was most inspired to follow her dreams. Katherine explored and brought African dance to life and left her legacy behind. The Katherine Dunham Centers for the Arts and Humanities has preserved “…Katherine Dunham's legacy and fulfilled her dream of showing the people of East St. Louis that 'there's a bigger world out there'” (O'Conner 99). Dunham's dream came true because "the PATC produced outstanding actors, dancers, percussionists, and a touring troupe among the native youth of East Saint Louis" (Dunham 558). Dunham's Dynamic Museum, also located in East Saint Louis, was built primarily to continue to fight racism by showing the importance and dignity of dark-skinned people, as throughout his life he saw the difference in treatment between her, a light-skinned person, and a dark-skinned person. (Dunham 559) “In understanding Miss Dunham, then, one must think not just of dance, not just of drums, not just of primitive rhythms, but of a woman-totem of African spirituality and cultural richness” (Dunham 559). Katherine Dunham died on May 21, 2006. (Katherine) “As an artist, educator, anthropologist, and activist, Katherine Dunham transformed the field of twentieth-century dance” (Das