Topic Selection

I choose Bessie Smith for my Nation History Day project because I am interested in the time when slavery just ended and women didn’t really have any rights. Bessie is important to history because she gave colored people a lead way to who wanted to do what she did. She was the first successful, rich and well known black Blues singer. For this week’s research, I found an article at http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/smith_bessie/bio.jhtml that is telling me about her life and fame. I will read and summarize it for next week.