“Black Orpheus” opened 12/1959...as far as I know... Her birthdate is in NOVEMBER 1942"
Making her 17, not 16. And she wouldn't have been accepted at UC prior to high school graduation the following year. One would think that the myth-makers would be more careful with dates and events.
I’m younger that SADO, but when I was a junior in high school, we took national exams and sent the results to colleges that we might want to attend. They’d return paperwork to tell us whether or not we met academic standards or shouldn’t even bother to apply because scores were too low. I don’t know if there were SATs or ACTs in the late 50s/early 60s, whenever she should have taken them. I was 17 when I took the tests. Maybe juniors did start college shopping then, but the Black Orpheus timeline puts it right at Christmas 1959 or the beginning of 1960. Or else, if summer, it had to be the summer of 1960—when she was 17, if her dob is correct. So this would be AFTER she graduated from Mercer High but before she went to Hawaii, if you believe her year of graduation (which I don’t). Did she hookup with the dad in Chicago?
In the wrong place at the wrong age, although there is no chronology throughout the book, some things really stand out.
Accepted to attend the University of Chicago? And why not, her uncle was Deputy Director of the Library at the University of Chicago. Charles T Payne.