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And first lady in a period when you 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 band members were arrested on a trumped up charge after a concert and used in texas. but a year earlier on a stopover in honolulu on route to sydney australia she was forced off the plane to allow white passengers on board. fitzgerald had to wait thre...

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...