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Bessie Smith and the Night Riders
Language: en
Pages: 40
Authors: Sue Stauffacher
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers

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Black blues singer Bessie Smith single-handedly scares off Ku Klux Klan members who are trying to disrupt her show one hot July night in Concord, North Carolina
Then See If I Care
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: David Crittendon
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-27 - Publisher: Blurb

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David Crittendon's historic blues novella, THEN SEE IF I CARE: A Story About Bessie Smith, makes you feel her yearning down to your bones. This is no low-down,
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Language: en
Pages: 465
Authors: Angela Y. Davis
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-05 - Publisher: Vintage

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From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Michelle R. Scott
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-08-04 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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The cultural and industrial reconstruction of the South, explored through a major figure in early black music
The Sandbox ; And, The Death of Bessie Smith ; With, Fam and Yam
Language: en
Pages: 96
Authors: Edward Albee
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: New Amer Library

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Two modern plays explore the spiritual and tragic aspects of the human struggle with death