By Jordan Meadows Staff Writer Francine Everett, born Franciene Williamson on April 13, 1915, in Louisburg, North Carolina, was an actress, singer, dancer, and model whose career in Black cinema during the 1930s and 1940s left a lasting mark on American film history. Raised in the segregated South by her father, a tailor named Noah Williamson, Everett's early life in North Carolina exposed her to the deep-rooted racial inequalities that