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Bessie Smith 1900 - 1965

Bessie Smith of Alabama was born on May 22, 1900, and died at age 65 years old in May 1965.

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In 1900, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, artist Henri Matisse, born in 1869 in France, began the fauvist movement. Only lasting a few years in popularity (ending around 1904), fauvism was in many ways the beginning of modern art. Matisse was fond of bright, vibrant colors and used them in his paintings - contrary to the muted use of color previously. While the fauvist movement declined in popularity, Matisse did not and he went on to create many more works of art and even a museum for his work, 2 years before his death in 1954. (In French, les Fauves means "the wild beasts". Matisse and those who followed his example were called "beasts" because of the bold colors that they used in their artwork.)
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In 1916, by the time she was 16 years old, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Smith, Catherine (Born Apr 29, 1854) Smith, Jane (Sep 12, 1823 - Jul 30, 1892) Smith, Andrew (Born Mar 8, 1846) Matheny-Smith, Ruby Smith, Clark Smith, Francis (Born 1861) Smith-Brown, Bernice Smith, Angus (Born 1859) Smith, Roderick (Born May 29, 1891) Smith, On the Right Mary (Born Nov 10, 1935)
Smith, Louise (Born Aug 7, 1914) Smith, George (Born Jul 18, 1885) Smith, Harvey (Born 1883) Neal-Smith, Elizabeth (Born 1890) Smith, Margaret (Born Mar 7, 1921) Smith, Eugene Barthel, Alice (Born Nov 17, 1913) Smith, Stanley (Born 1925) Ferguson, Catherine  (Apr 30, 1854 - Feb 7, 1930) Smith, Bill

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