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Bessie Smith
Title: Bessie Smith
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
Details: Words: 360 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Bessie Smith
It’s a Hard Knock Life
Bessie Smith, the greatest and most significant blues singer of the 1920's, paid her dues and persevered the suffering of desertion, infidelity, discrimination, and hard-drinking street life. Bessie began the words of her "song," early in her life. Bessie's early childhood was plagued by desertion, poverty, and discrimination. By the age of nine, both her parents and at least two of her brothers had passed away. After being orphaned, …showed first 75 words of 360 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 360 total…comeback in the early 1930s when her life was tragically cut short in an automobile accident. On September 26, 1937, Bessie Smith and her lover, Richard Morgan were driving in Mississippi when their car rear-ended a truck. Bessie suffered severe injuries; her left arm was severed and her ribs were crushed. It is speculated that Bessie was denied proper medical treatment due to her skin color, being turned away from a white hospital. She died at age 43.
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