Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues, and Breaking Convention
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I was thinking about Bessie Smith today, because I’m working on a personal project and I need some inspiration. And as I was designing The Black Experience in America: The Course, she brought me one of those “Aha” moments. A little more than a year ago I was in the post-Civil-War home stretch of structuring The Course, looking to illuminate the period between the botched Reconstruction period and the seeds of the Civil Rights Movement. I settled on a period that included the beginning of The Great Migration and The Harlem Renaissance.
Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues, and Breaking Convention
Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues, and Breaking…
Bessie Smith, St. Louis Blues, and Breaking Convention
I was thinking about Bessie Smith today, because I’m working on a personal project and I need some inspiration. And as I was designing The Black Experience in America: The Course, she brought me one of those “Aha” moments. A little more than a year ago I was in the post-Civil-War home stretch of structuring The Course, looking to illuminate the period between the botched Reconstruction period and the seeds of the Civil Rights Movement. I settled on a period that included the beginning of The Great Migration and The Harlem Renaissance.