Bessye Johnson Bearden (November 1893 – September 16, 1943) was an American journalist and civic activist, who was the mother of artist Romare Bearden...

Renaissance. His father, Howard Bearden, was a pianist. Romare's mother, Bessye Bearden, played an active role with the New York City Board of Education, and...

Rat Was White' (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. pp. 155–212. "Anderson J Franklin Boston College". Boston College, Lynch School of Education. Archived...

Defender, written by Defender editor Richard Durham Longview Race Riot Bessye J. Bearden Roscoe Simmons Staples, Brent (January 4, 2016). "A 'Most Dangerous'...

Democratic Party among African Americans. Its founder and president, Bessye J. Bearden was, like Major, a prominent Harlem resident, journalist, and civic...

Romare Bearden, who was the son of journalist and civic activist Bessye J. Bearden. Aida's mother was Anna Elizabeth Miller (maiden; 1878–1972). By way...

include catalogs and reunion materials. Bessye J. Bearden, journalist, civic activist, and mother of artist Romare Bearden Eva Roberta Coles Boone, educator...

school he was given his first oil paints and learned about his aunt Bessye Bearden's art salons, which stars like Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes attended...

of the NAACP), the actress Mercedes Gilbert and Bessye Bearden, the mother of artist Romare Bearden. In the late 1930s, Johnson slowly started to re-emerge...

the name Teresa Gentry, she danced in the chorus with Josephine Baker and Bessye Buchanen. Later, she was in the cast of the original rendition of the Ziegfeld...