num_pages: 208
description: And we can't forget the Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Katherine Dunham, Hazel Scott, Marian Anderson, Dinah Washington, Pearl Bailey, Dorothy Dandridge, Leontyne Price, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Tina Tuner... Brown Sugar narrates the triumphant struggle of these women to make it in the entertainment undustry against overwhelming odds.
language: English
title: Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars
titlecomplete: Brown Sugar: Eighty Years of America's Black Female Superstars
genres: History, Biography, African American, Music, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 49
publisher: Da Capo Press