The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled with sequins, which ...

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Known as the "Empress of the Blues”, Bessie Smith went on to become the world's highest-paid Black entertainer of her time.

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