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From Josephine Baker to Hazel Scott and Ethel Waters, keep scrolling to gawk over our beauty crushes from the Harlem Renaissance.
From Josephine Baker to Hazel Scott and Ethel Waters, keep scrolling to gawk over our beauty crushes from the Harlem Renaissance.
Hazel Scott, studio portrait, USA, 1950.
These luminaries were the first of their kind.
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Hazel Scott in The Heat’s On (1943) “According to film historian Jim Pines, Scott temporarily brought production of the movie to a halt because she resented the script's one-dimensional portrayal of...
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I must admit, it did my jazzy little heart good to hear Alicia Keys give a shout out to Hazel Scott during her impressive dual piano stint on the 61st Grammy Awards.
A profile of Hazel Scott, an A-list musician in the 1940s who was the first Black person to host a television show in America.
HAZEL SCOTT VISITING TROOPS DURING WWII
Hazel Dorothy Scott (1920 – 1981) was a Trinidadian-born jazz and classical pianist and singer; she also performed as herself in several films. Born in Port of Spain, Hazel was taken at the age of four by her mother to New York. Recognized early as a musical prodigy, Scott was given scholarships from the age of eight to study at the Juilliard School. She began performing in a jazz band in her teens and was performing on radio at age 16. She was prominent as a jazz singer throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In 1950, she became the first person of color to have a TV show, The Hazel Scott Show, featuring a variety of entertainment. Her career in America faltered after a scandalous affair with the married preacher and politician Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and after she testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the McCarthy era. Scott subsequently moved to Paris in the late 1950s and performed in France, not returning to the United States until 1967. Here below is a photo collection showing the beauty of this talented woman in her young age.
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From Josephine Baker to Hazel Scott and Ethel Waters, keep scrolling to gawk over our beauty crushes from the Harlem Renaissance.
Hazel Scott was a pioneering jazz pianist, and the first black American to host her own network TV show. But when she stood up against racial segregation and stereotyping, the industry blacklisted her – and her name was all but erased from the history books.
Hazel Scott, 1950
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Hazel Scott was also the first African-American woman to host her own TV show
Long before Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, the former "Darling of Café Society," Hazel Scott spoke of her hope of a future with "all racial prejudice eliminated."
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Hazel Scott was a pioneering jazz pianist, and the first black American to host her own network TV show. But when she stood up against racial segregation and stereotyping, the industry blacklisted her – and her name was all but erased from the history books.
