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Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues
1894
Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Born in a one-room shack here and singing on street corners as a child, she became the highest-paid Black performer of the 1920s and was billed as the Empress of the Blues. She died after a car crash in Mississippi in 1937. Her grave went unmarked until Janis Joplin paid for a stone in 1970.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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