The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess

The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess

Author: Ellen Noonan

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 0807837164

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Examines the opera Porgy and Bess's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of 20th-century American expectations about race, culture and the struggle for equality.


Queen Bess

Queen Bess

Author: Doris L. Rich

Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1588345122

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Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, she became known as “Queen Bess,” a barnstormer and flying-circus performer who defied the strictures of race, sex, and society in pursuit of a dream.