Bessye Johnson Bearden (November 1893 – September 16, 1943) was an American journalist and civic activist, who was the mother of artist Romare Bearden...
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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...
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Rat Was White' (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon. pp. 155–212. "Anderson J Franklin Boston College". Boston College, Lynch School of Education. Archived...
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Defender, written by Defender editor Richard Durham Longview Race Riot Bessye J. Bearden Roscoe Simmons Staples, Brent (January 4, 2016). "A 'Most Dangerous'...
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Democratic Party among African Americans. Its founder and president, Bessye J. Bearden was, like Major, a prominent Harlem resident, journalist, and civic...
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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...
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include catalogs and reunion materials. Bessye J. Bearden, journalist, civic activist, and mother of artist Romare Bearden Eva Roberta Coles Boone, educator...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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