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Smith in 1936. The 1900 census indicates that her family reported that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1892. [2] [3] [4] The 1910 census gives her age as 16, [5] and a birth date of April 15, 1894, which appears on subsequent documents and was observed as her birthday by the Smith family.
Riverside Hotel Blues Trail marker. Riverside Hotel was a hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in operation since 1944.The fourth marker location on the Mississippi Blues Trail, famed for providing lodging for such blues artists as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ike Turner, and Robert Nighthawk, it was previously the G.T. Thomas Hospital, in which Bessie Smith died in 1937.
Bessie Smith did indeed die following a car crash, but she was never refused admittance to a white hospital, which is the premise of Albee's play. She was taken directly to the Afro-American Hospital in Clarksdale, Mississippi , where she died some seven hours later.
In it, lyrics (again quite different from either Bobby Leecan's or Bessie Smith's) are spoken rather than sung, by Pinetop Smith and Alberta Reynolds, to Pinetop's piano accompaniment. [7] The song is one of eleven known recordings by Pinetop Smith, who died two months after the recording the song.
The tragic tale of an African-American jazz singer, the story was inspired by the death of Bessie Smith, who died from injuries suffered in an automobile accident in near Memphis, Tennessee. Due to segregationist prohibitions, she was denied medical treatment by physicians in a hospital reserved for white patients. [4]
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