Rainey, Gertrude "Ma" (1886-1939)
Gertrude "Ma" Rainey is known as the "Mother of the Blues." Born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus, Georgia, on April 26, 1886, ...
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The first popular stage entertainer to incorporate authentic blues in her song repertoire, Ma Rainey (1886-1939) performed during the first three decades of the twentieth century.Known as the "Mother ...
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Question 1 of 10:The film industry was changed forever when the first ‘talkie’ was released in 1927. What was it called?
Modern Times
The Jazz Singer
Birth of a Nation
The General
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Canadian-born American theatre director (b. June 29, 1919,
Toronto
, Ont.—d. June 29, 2006,
New York, N.Y.
), exerted a powerful influence on American theatre for four decades as director o...
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Friedrich AdolphMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) _ Friedrich Adolph, the last surviving sailor in Uruguay from the famed German battleship Admiral Graf Spee, died Friday, his family said. He was 89.Adolph ...
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August Wilson’s extraordinary first play, Jitney (1982), born in the chains of slavery and the necessity of memory, was a tragedy of small and profound lives lived out in good humor and morta...
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"Radio Golf," the final chapter in August Wilson's monumental, decade-by-decade look at the black experience in 20th century America, is a play forged by illness, reworked in a furious burst of cre...
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Rainey, Gertrude "Ma" (1886-1939)
Ma Rainey
The Jazz Age: A 20s America Quiz
