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The Bessie Smith Story You Heard for 80 Years Was Wrong
For decades, the world believed Bessie Smith — the Empress of the Blues — bled to death after a whites-only hospital refused to treat her following a 1937 car crash. Broadway plays repeated it. Respected authors repeated it. It took a biographer tracking down the actual attending physician, decades later, to unravel what really happened ...
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