The program continues its series Tell Me More About Black History with reflections on the music and style of Harlem Renaissance singer Bessie Smith. It's Black History Month, and we're remembering ...

Bessie Smith by Carl Van Vechten, Noble Black Women: The Harlem Renaissance and After, 1936, printed 1983 Van Vechten Trust; Compilation/Publication, Eakins Press ...

and Bessie Smith was pretty much the queen of that area. At the time that she is becoming popular this is when the Harlem Renaissance is getting underway, and she sells so many records that she ...

There’s a new renaissance in Harlem ... flocked night after night to see such artists as Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton at venues like the Cotton Club.

While the Harlem Renaissance was effectively put to an ... From her humble beginnings as a street singer in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Bessie Smith would go on to become the highest-paid Black ...

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This site offers a look at noted black female writers in the early part of the 20th century, such as Bessie Smith, Augusta Savage and Zora Neale Hurston.