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	Diamond Bessie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diamond Bessie is the popular name given to Bessie Moore, née Annie Stone, a prostitute whose murder in the woods outside of Jefferson, Texas propelled her to the level of local legend.
		Bessie was born in 1854 in Syracuse, New York, and the abundance of attention from men resulting from her striking beauty is said to have led her down the proverbial "wayward path" at a young age.
		Bessie was pressuring Rothschild to marry her, and according to various accounts, she may have claimed she was pregnant (which might even have been true) and threatened to reveal this scandalous fact to Rothschild's father.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diamond_Bessie (1396 words)

	Bessie Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA was the most popular and successful blues singer of 1920s and 30s, and a huge influence on the singers who followed her.
		Smith was initially hired as a dancer with the Moses Stokes company, a show that also included Ma Rainey, who did not teach Smith to sing but probably helped her develop a stage presence.
		Smith was in fact still alive when she was brought to the hospital, in the middle of the night, but she never regained consciousness, and died that morning at 11:50.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bessie_Smith (1038 words)

	Remembering Bessie Smith
		In the final scene Bessie’s distraught lover stands in the admissions department of a white hospital begging to have her admitted.
		Bessie was paid $30 for each recording she made and all the royalties were paid to John Hammond.
		Bessie Smith is still an icon for feminists because of her struggle against a patriarchal and discriminatory society.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/jarvis6.html (1390 words)

	Bessie Coleman Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Bessie Coleman was one of the first African-Americans in the world to become a licensed pilot, and one of the first women in the country to do so.
		Bessie was already 28 when she decided a flying career was more important than the usual female pursuits of the period just after World War I. Though she had two strikes against her - her color and her sex - she had the stamina and the will to do what she wanted.
		Bessie sailed for France in late 1920, to the flight school of LeCrotoy, and for the next 10 months, she learned how to fly - and the hazards of flight.
	www.ohare.com /ohare/about/about_bessie.shtm (351 words)

	Bessie Smith
		Bessie was born in harsh poverty in Chattanooga, Tennessee, around 1894.
		By 1926 public enthusiasm for the blues is declining and Bessie's venues become less prestigious, she begins using more suggestive lyrics in 1927 in an attempt to stem falling interest in her music and records 'Empty Bed Blues' in 1928 which becomes a big hit.
		Whatever the true facts were, Bessie's death was given more space in the white press than anything that she did while alive.
	www.john-meekings.co.uk /bessiesmith.html (411 words)

	Bessie Smith
		Bessie had a sexual appetite that extended to both genders, and she gratified it widely and regularly.
		Professionally, Bessie was territorial to the point that she refused to appear in the same show with another blues singer.
		In her rendition of Wesley Wilson's Gimmie a Pigfoot, Bessie substitutes "a reefer and a gang of gin" for "a pigfoot and a bottle of beer," in the final chorus.
	bluesnet.hub.org /readings/bessie.html (2361 words)

	Bessie Smith biography - extended
		Bessie Smith was born into a poverty stricken fl family in the segregated south.
		This was mostly the result of changing trends in music, however, Bessie's long-standing alcoholism played its part as as record producers found her very difficult to work with.
		Indeed, Bessie Smith was in the process of a comeback at the time of her tragic death at age forty-three.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/smit-besx.htm (598 words)

	Bessie Smith
		At the time of Bessie Smith’s birth in Chattanooga, Tennesee, fls were so little thought of that no record was made; only the date she gave on her marriage license leads us to give the year as 1894.
		Bessie Smith, the "Empress of the Blues" as she was called at the time, was a powerful, strong-willed woman who made her mark in history through singing the blues in the 1920’s and 30’s.
		Bessie Smith’s family was poor, and desperately so after the death of her mother, when Bessie was eight.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/bsmith.html (966 words)

	Head--Rainclouds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Bessie Head was born and educated in South Africa.
		Her mother's family committed the mother to an asylum, as a consequence, and it is in the asylum that Bessie Head was born.
		Bessie Head migrated to Botswana in 1964 where she began her fiction writing career.
	athena.english.vt.edu /%7Ecarlisle/Postcolonial/Bessie_Head/Rainclouds.html (1652 words)

	Bessie Coleman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Bessie Coleman Commemorative is the 18th in the U.S. Postal Service Black Heritage series.
		Bessie Coleman was born in Texas in 1892.
		As she gained increasing fame as a barnstorming air circus performer in a war-surplus Jenny Trainer, she became known as "Queen Bessie." On April 30, 1926, while practicing for a show in Orlando, Florida, she was thrown from the plane and fell to her death.
	www.ninety-nines.org /coleman.html (299 words)

	Bessie Smith
		Ma Rainey was Bessie's mentor and she stayed with her show until 1915.
		The session was released under the name of Bessie Smith accompanied by Buck and his Band.
		Bessie had started to style herself as a Swing musician and was on the verge of a comeback when her life was tragically cut short by an automobile accident in 1937.
	www.redhotjazz.com /bessie.html (603 words)

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		Bessie tried to keep Jack from discovering several aspects of her private life, such as the wide range of her sexual tastes.
		Bessie had been on good behavior for several months, and now she was ready for some fun.
		Bessie knew, of course, what she was singing about when she recorded those words in 1927.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG97/blues/katz.html (3221 words)

	Blues Online© Bessie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Known as the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
		Bessie's career began when she was 'discovered' by none other than Ma Rainey when Ma's revue, the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, was passing through Chattanooga around 1912 and she had the occasion to hear young Bessie sing.
		Bessie's last recording session in 1933 billed as a comeback, was in large measure a sentimental gesture by producer John Hammond.
	mathrisc1.lunet.edu /blues/Bessie_Smith.html (848 words)

	Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		At W.C. Handy's suggestion, Bessie Smith was picked to be the star of the film.
		Bessie had scored a huge hit in 1925 with her recording of "St. Louis Blues", which had featured Louis Armstrong on cornet.
		The co-stars were dancer/actor Jimmy Mordecai as Bessie's good for nothing boyfriend and Isabel Washington Powell as the other woman.
	www.redhotjazz.com /stlouisblues.html (228 words)

	Blues Lyrics On Line: BESSIE SMITH
		Bessie Smith recorded this standard, with Clarence Williams on the piano, 11 April 1923 in New York City.
		Bessie Smith (accompanied by Charlie Green, trombone and Porter Grainger, piano) on March 20, 1928 in New York City.
		This blues by Bessie Smith was recorded on October 1, 1929 in New York, with James P. Johnson at the piano.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Delta/2541/blbsmith.htm (739 words)

	Bessie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Bessie, the vintage yellow car with the license plate "WHO 1" (later "WHO 7") was obtained by UNIT soon after the Third Doctor exile to Earth, to replace a similar car which he "borrows" in Spearhead From Space.
		Bessie makes her first appearance in the following episode; even then it is apparent that the Doctor has made some improvements on the original model.
		The Third Doctor eventually gets the Whomobile, but Bessie continues to be used even after the Doctor regenerates, albeit only in one adventure.
	www.wilson203.freeserve.co.uk /Bessie.htm (144 words)

	Code One Magazine: Above The Cotton Fields: The Bessie Coleman Story — January 1990
		Bessie Coleman, star attraction, was just one of hundreds of high-spirited young fliers in those early days whose names have been obscured by such greats as Wright, Thibaud, Beachey, Fokker, Curtiss, Quimby, and Meyers.
		Shortly after her death, Bessie Coleman aero groups were organized by William J. Powell and on Labor Day, 1931, the flying clubs sponsored the first all-fl air show in America, an event that attracted 15,000 spectators.
		Bessie's niece, Marion, was there and proudly passed the press clipping on to Code One.
	www.codeonemagazine.com /archives/1990/articles/oct_90/octa_90.html (2697 words)

	bessie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		It all began on a Chattanooga street corner, when Bessie and her brother Andrew were singing and dancing to earn pennies from passersby.
		Both of her parents died before Bessie had reached Womanhood, leaving her in the care of her older sister Viola.
		During the height of her career Bessie was earning upwards of $2000.
	www.geocities.com /theblueslady.geo/bessie.html (563 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: COLEMAN, BESSIE
		Bessie Coleman (Brave Bessie or Queen Bess), the world's first licensed fl pilot, daughter of Susan Coleman, was born in Atlanta, Texas, on January 26, 1892, the twelfth of thirteen children.
		Bessie, along with several siblings still living at home, helped ease the family's financial troubles by picking cotton or assisting with the washing and ironing that her mother took in.
		Apparently in early 1917 Bessie Coleman married Claude Glenn, but she never publicly acknowledged the marriage, and the two soon separated.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/CC/fcobq.html (868 words)

	Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829-1925)
		Born in Birmingham, she was the daughter of Joseph Parkes, a solicitor and Unitarian, and Elizabeth Priestley, eldest granddaughter of the scientist Joseph Priestley.
		Although an enthusiastic supporter of the rights of married women to property, earnings and the vote, she was not an advocate of complete equality, believing as she did in the uniquely "delicate" organisation of the female brain and body.
		Bessie herself did not renew her links with the active women's movement on her return from France when, reduced to near poverty, she eventually moved to Slindon, near Arundel in Sussex, where she was to live for the rest of her life.
	www3.shropshire-cc.gov.uk /parkes.htm (483 words)

	Michael Ivankovich Antiques - Bessie Pease Gutmann Biography
		Bessie Pease Gutmann was probably the early 20th century's most famous artist of infant and young boys and girls.
		Bessie Pease Gutmann, best known for her adorable infant and children prints, also produced a series of lesser-known Colonial Interior scenes.
		Bessie Pease Gutmann collectors usually prefer the baby and infant prints, and collectors of hand-colored photography typically prefer photographic Interiors to Gutmann's machine-produced Colonial Interiors.
	www.wnutting.com /prints/bios-prints/gutmann.html (740 words)

	CPL Bessie Coleman Branch Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The Bessie Coleman Branch opened on March 27, 1993, combining the collections and staff of the Woodlawn and Washington Park Branches into a new, full-service facility.
		Bessie Coleman was the twelfth of 13 children.
		Her quest to find a school to obtain flying instruction in the United States was fraught with blatant prejudice for two obvious reasons: her race and her sex.
	cpl.lib.uic.edu /002branches/coleman/colhgh.html (337 words)

	Smith, Bessie on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		She died after an automobile accident while on tour in Mississippi, the circumstances of which are discussed in Edward Albee's play The Death of Bessie Smith (1960).
		Bessie "Betty" Marie Criswell, 90, spends hours each day at her home in Dallas, Texas, studying the Bible and preparing for her weekly class at First Baptist Church Dallas.
		Bessie "Betty" Marie Criswell, of Dallas, Texas, holds a mother of pearl Bible she and her husband, Dr. W.A. Criswell, bought on a trip to Bethelehem in 1975.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/s/smith-b1e.asp (519 words)

	Head
		Bessie Head died in Botswana in 1986 at the young age of forty-nine.
		It is hoped that great leaders will arise there who remember the suffering of racial hatred and out of it formulate a common language of love for all people.
		Though Bessie Head's life might be seen as somber and traumatic, her works present love and light alongside the pictures of hardship and isolation that she paints.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Head.html (711 words)

	roots & culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Bessie Smith was born around 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
		Dubbed "The Empress of the Blues," her singing embodied the Blues feeling while her songs, drawing from her sordid lifestyle, rang true with rural and urban audiences alike.
		Bessie's music is one of the roots of the Blues, and there are many compilations of her songs available on CD, including two 2-CD compilations from Columbia's Legacy series.
	www.jazzateria.com /roots/bsmith.html (130 words)

	Bessie Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Known as the "Empress of the Blues," Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tenn. on April.
		The circumstances of her death, in an automobile accident in Mississippi, were the subject of a play by Edward Albee (The Death of Bessie Smith, 1960).
		Smith was driven miles to a hospital for "niggers" when she was critically ill despite the nearness of a whites-only hospital.
	www.uic.edu /depts/quic/history/bessie_smith.html (226 words)

	Blues Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Ida Cox, Bessie Smith, and Clara Smith moved away from the country syle and developed sopisticated, flexible blues styles that could handle the tough or slick sounds that city listeners were accustomed to.
		Bessie Smith born in a Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1894.
		Through Bessie Smith, the blues were raised to an artform that was to be the hallmark for every woman blues singer who recorded during the 1920's.
	www.island.net /~blues/women.html (2096 words)

	Aeronautics - Bessie Coleman
		Bessie Coleman was born January 26, 1892, in Atlanta, Texas, one of thirteen children.
		While on the barn-storming circuit in 1926 at Paxon Field, Jacksonville, FL, Bessie's Jenny went into a nose dive and Bessie was thrown from the plane to her death during a test flight.
		Shortly after her death, Bessie Coleman Aero Groups were organized by William J. Powell and on Labor Day, 1931, those flying clubs sponsored the first all-fl air show in America.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aero/coleman.htm (637 words)

	CNN.com - Nature - Scientists close to first successful cloning of extinct animal - October 9, 2000
		Using a technique developed by ACT in Worcester, scientists removed the DNA from one of Bessie's eggs and fused the egg with a skin cell taken from a living gaur, producing a genetically gaur egg that would be accepted by Bessie's immune system.
		Before being implanted in Bessie's uterus, the egg was artificially induced to begin dividing without being fertilized.
		Bessie was one of 32 cows implanted with the fused eggs, and the only one to bring an embryo to near-term.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/NATURE/10/09/ox.cloning.ap (854 words)

	HeadBib
		Exile, Gender and Prejudice: Bessie Head and the Problem of Oppression [book article] Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, with University of New Brunswick in Saint John.
		Bessie Head and the African Novel [journal article] Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.
		Bessie an opportunity to learn what she was like, especially in the hard early
	www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/AfrWomenWriters/Head/HeadBib.html (2045 words)

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