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 ...

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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.

This trend also extended to many women during the Harlem Renaissance. Notables such as blues singer Bessie Smith would be seen wearing gorgeous gowns covered in beautiful beading and embroidery as ...

The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most iconic ... some of the spaces spotlighted include Hotel Olga, where Bessie Smith and Claude McKay used to stay, the Savoy Ballroom, where the “Lindy ...

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During the Harlem Renaissance ... with an upstairs stage that would be graced by Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith. Maybe they walked past the Cotton Club on 142nd Street and scorned its ban ...