Bessie Smith's Chattanooga

On February 17, 2010 at UMBC, Dr. Michelle Scott delivered the Daphne Harrison Lecture on
Street Scenes and Blues Lives: Bessie Smith's Chattanooga. 
Dr. Scott discussed the behind the music process in studying the childhood community and environment of blues legend Bessie Smith.  Through photos, music clips, playbills, city directories, and oral histories Scott illustrated the life of Smith as a street performer and explored recreational spaces as social protest for African Americans in the segregated early 29th century United States. This Humanities Forum Lecture was sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Friends of the AOK Library.

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