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The Red Hot Jazz Archive. " Bessie Smith " Oct. 17, 2008. http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html

This website is about who Bessie Smith really is. the article states that she a rough, crude, and violent women.
She was also the greatest of the classic blues singers of the 1920"s. Bessie Joined a traveling show as a dancing
and singer. In 1923 she made her recording debut on Columbia accompanied by pianist Clarence Williams and
recorded " Gulf Coast Blues" and " Down hearted blues". She also was one of the the biggest African American
stars of the 1920's and was popular with both Whites and African americans. Bessie Smith later on died in a
tragic car accident, while driving with lovers Richard Morgan their car rear-ended a slow moving truck and
rolled over crushing Bessie left arm arm ribs. Smith bled to death by the time she reached the hospital.
John Hammond caused quite a stir by writing an article in Downbeat magazine suggesting that Smith
had bled to death because she had been taken to a White hospital and had been turned away. This
proved not to be true, but the rumor persists to this day.

This article was very helpful to me because it gave me a lot of information on her success and how her life
ended tragically at a young age. From what I read I believe this a Secondary Source because somebody else
wrote it that was not from that time period.