success‚ selling more than 10 million copies turning Bessie Smith into the most successful blues singer of the era. She performed and sang her way out of poverty at a young age. In today’s world her career may seem short at just a decade‚ but the influence she had on music and the blues will last forever. Her music was about mistreatment from lovers‚ straight talk about drinking‚ mischief‚ sex and dealt with the black experience in America. Bessie Smith was an exceptional unforgettable blues singer
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Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years Having Our Say is the amazing story about the almost invincible Delany sisters. In this novel‚ Sarah L. Delaney and A. Elizabeth Delany tell the tale of their century long lives in America. The reader learns about their whole lives starting from their childhood‚ which was on the campus of St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh‚ North Carolina‚ all the way to their final years in which they lived in New York. During their lives‚ the Delany sisters lived
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views of a variety of issues‚ especially race relations. Rowan also served as the director of the United States Information Agency and was the ambassador to Finland. Unforgettable Miss Bessie Carl T. Rowan She was only about five feet tall and probably never weighed more than 100 pounds‚ but Miss Bessie was a towering presence in the classroom. She was the only woman tough enough to make me read Beowulf and think for a few foolish days that I liked it From 1938 to 1942‚ when I attended
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Bessie J. Blount African-American Inventor & Forensic Scientist Bessie Blount Griffin was born on November 24‚ 1914 in Hickory‚ VA‚ present day Chesapeake‚ VA. She studied at both Panzar College of Physical Education and at Union Junior College in New Jersey. Prior to being deployed as a nurse during World War II‚ she studied physical therapy in Chicago. During her childhood‚ her stubborn streak showed when at 7 she was reprimanded for writing with her left hand; she decided to learn to
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Martin Delaney Alexa Roy Martin Delany was born in West Virginia a free man‚ the son of Pati and Samuel Delany. He was considered free because his Mother Pati was a free women. In his growing years he and his siblings were taught to read using the New York primer to learn to read. To keep from being arrested his mother moved the children to Pennsylvania a free state. He did have to leave school occasionally to help on the family farm but eventually he did migrate to Pittsburgh where
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did Bessie and Sadie Delany grow up? 2. From which university did Bessie and Sadie Delany earn their degrees? 3. What professional achievement did each of the Delany sisters accomplish? 4. Did either Delany sister ever marry? 5. Where did their parents meet‚ marry‚ and rear them and their siblings? How many children did they have? 6. What was the original status of the Delany sisters’ parents? 7. What was their father’s occupation? 8. Define issue-free Negro. 9. According to Bessie‚ what
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BookRags Literature Study Guide Having Our Say (novel) by Sarah Louise Delany For the online version of BookRags’ Having Our Say (novel) Literature Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-having-our-say/ Copyright Information ©2000-2011 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Literature Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism
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BESSIE SMITH 1894 – 1937 Bessie Smith‚ known as “Empress of the Blues”‚ was born on April 15 1894 in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee. She was one of seven children to a part-time Baptist preacher and his wife. However‚ by the time Bessie was nine years old both of her parents were dead. Bessie and her brother Andrew were already singing on the streets of Chattanooga for spare change. Bessie’s older brother Clarence had joined a travelling vaudeville1 show as a comedian and dancer and in 1912 he
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St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith and St. Louis Blues are two legends in the blues world‚ separately as well as together. When placed together one could not find a better example of classical blues from the 1920’s. St. Louis Blues is one of the most popular blues songs ever written. William Christopher Hardy wrote this song over 80 years ago. While on a trip to St. Louis‚ Hardy met a tormented black woman. She spoke to him in her deep southern broken English about the loss of her husband to another
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Bessie coleman was the first African-American to earn a license to fly a plane. Many people of all races were inspired by her ambitious drive to accomplish her goals. Queen Bess did not just wake up and become an inspiring historical figure ;she first had to overcome the obstacle that life threw at her. Bessie Coleman was born on January 26 1832 in Atlanta Texas to Susan Coleman and George Coleman. Her parents were sharecroppers that worked making sure that their thirteen children were fed. It became
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