This website i have to say was the important of them all it tells me about Bessie Smiths Beginning, becoming the empress, the blues diva, wild women , love on the road, her death and the controversy afterwards. As stated " Jack Gee collected all the money that was due to Smith for the sales of her records. Gee refused to buy his ex-wife a headstone, and her family, for unknown reasons, did too. In 1948, Smith's friends held a Bessie Smith Memorial Concert in New York to raise funds for the headstone. The concert was a success, but Gee pocketed the proceeds and disappeared."
Friday, November 14, 2008
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Noble, Barnes. "Bessie Smith ." Sparknotes. 2008. 14 Nov 2008 .
This website i have to say was the important of them all it tells me about Bessie Smiths Beginning, becoming the empress, the blues diva, wild women , love on the road, her death and the controversy afterwards. As stated " Jack Gee collected all the money that was due to Smith for the sales of her records. Gee refused to buy his ex-wife a headstone, and her family, for unknown reasons, did too. In 1948, Smith's friends held a Bessie Smith Memorial Concert in New York to raise funds for the headstone. The concert was a success, but Gee pocketed the proceeds and disappeared."
This website i have to say was the important of them all it tells me about Bessie Smiths Beginning, becoming the empress, the blues diva, wild women , love on the road, her death and the controversy afterwards. As stated " Jack Gee collected all the money that was due to Smith for the sales of her records. Gee refused to buy his ex-wife a headstone, and her family, for unknown reasons, did too. In 1948, Smith's friends held a Bessie Smith Memorial Concert in New York to raise funds for the headstone. The concert was a success, but Gee pocketed the proceeds and disappeared."
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