May 2nd 2017

2017 Margaret Burroughs Centennial Film Series

@ DuSable Museum of African American History

740 E 56th Pl, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Tuesday, May 2nd, from 7PM - 9PM

Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues (1989, 58 min.)

Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. The film brings together for the first time dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues.

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