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The biggest names in the genre in the mid one nine hundred fifty s. she accompanied the show around the world including to the southern united states where the performers faced intense discrimination her manager norman grant's forcefully opposed racial segregation. asked nice well being on the road certainly and countered segregation ross said no he didn't encounter and he purposely. to come front and every year i come here with jazz of the market every year i think the thing this is the greatest thing in jazz masella that . i remember hearing a woman grant's constantly introducing his one and...

Masella that. i remember hearing a woman grant's constantly introducing his one and only as mistress gerald the great ella fitzgerald rarely does he ever just use her first name because he was so clued in to the racist climate in the united states. and first lady in a period when we weren't supposed to call a black woman mrs is a very important racialized statement as well it's a statement of stature of prestige. of entitlement to dignity. but the first lady of jazz faced the same discrimination that all black jazz musicians suffered at the time in one nine hundred fifty five she and other ban...