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Ella Fitzgerald
April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996
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Promo photo for Jazz at the Philharmonic Concert in Paris 1957, NARA ID 20012478.
#OTD 1934: Ella Fitzgerald Debuts at Amateur Night at the Apollo!
First Lady of Song AND Civil Rights activist
By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs
On the evening of November 21, 1934, 17 year-old Ella Fitzgerald took the stage on Amateur Night at Harlem’s Apollo Theater and launched her longtime career as the “First Lady of Song.” She sang for presidents, was the first Black woman to win a Grammy (she won 13 Grammy awards) and sold over 40 million albums.
She was also a Civil Rights activist who used her talent to break racial barriers. In recognition of her work she was awarded the NAACP Equal Justice Award and the American Black Achievement Award. The National Archives holds records documenting the discrimination she faced -- and fought.
Ella Fitzgerald et al v. Pan Am: Racism or “honest mistake”?
On tour in 1954 en route to a concert in Australia she was denied the right to board a Pan American flight. She had to spend three days in Hawaii before other transportation to Australia could be secured, and she missed her concert dates.
She sued Pan Am, claiming racism and seeking financial compensation. Pan Am claimed it was “an honest mistake” due to a reservation mix-up. The district judge dismissed the complaint, but the plaintiffs appealed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reversed that decision, ruling in favor of the plaintiffs.
New York Times, 12/31/1954.
Complaint, Ella Fitzgerald, John Lewis, Georgiana Henry, and Norman Granz v. Pan American, Inc., 12/23/1954 Records of U.S. District Courts NARA ID 2641486.
Ella Fitzgerald Performs at Birthday Salute to JFK at Madison Square Garden 5/19/1962, JFK Library ID ST-212-15-62.
President Gerald R. Ford and First Lady Betty Ford with Ella Fitzgerald at White House Bicentennial concert 6/20/1976, Ford Library, NARA ID 7840021.
Ella Fitzgerald Performs at the White House State Dinner for King Juan Carlos I of Spain, 10/13/1981, Reagan Library, NARA ID 75855955.
More online:
See the complaint in the Documented Rights online exhibit under “Challenging Discrimination.”
DocsTeach: Complaint in the Case of Fitzgerald v. Pan American Airways, 12/23/1954
DocsTeach: Judgment in the Case of Fitzgerald v. Pan American World Airways, 1/26/1956.
Hear Fitzgerald discuss this incident, the lawsuit, and her legal victory: Ella Fitzgerald kicked off a plane because of her race: CBC Archives.
#OTD#blm#black lives matter#jazz#jazz history#women's history#equity#civil rights#justice#ford library#reagan library#social justice#black excellence#racial justice#ella fitzgerald#first lady of song#black history
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Ella Fitzgerald: The Queen of Jazz and Her Enduring Legacy
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In the vast realm of jazz, there are few voices that have left as profound an impact as that of Ella Fitzgerald. Known as the “First Lady of Song” and the “Queen of Jazz,” Fitzgerald’s vocal virtuosity, impeccable technique, and unparalleled ability to interpret a song have solidified her place as one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time. In this blog post, we delve into the…
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#Cole Porter#Duke Ellington#Ella Fitzgerald#First Lady of Song#George Gershwin#Irving Berlin#Jazz History#Jazz Vocalists#Nelson Riddle#Queen of Jazz
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The admiration and love I have for this woman... <3
Ella Fitzgerald has always been with me. Since I was young, my mom would play her music on the stereo cd player, especially during the holidays.
Then during freshman year of high school, I started to discover the jazz world and I became obsessed. And of course, I became obsessed with Ella.
Yes, she is popular. Yes, she holds the title "Queen of Jazz". Yes, she can be heard quite often. BUT, she will never be overrated, EVER!
She was the type of person that I would have loved to have sat down and talked with. She was a beautiful performer and musician, but she also seemed like a wonderful person... ✧♡
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Little sketch of vincent bc I was listening to shellshock by new order and he kicked his way back into my brain so hard I almost had an aneurysm
#vinicius my beloved <3#my favorite little depresso vampire and his unhinged feral gf iloveyouguyssomuch#I'm suddenly struck with the need to draw the two again. suppressing it bc I have other wips I wanna finish first#but I'm jdjfksljfnvnfivjenlfkvoflfkgkfmsllsmfmslslkdmd. you know#vtm#vtmb#brujah#oc.vince#sleepyscribble#also. cheri cheri lady. that's also a vincent song now#I can't listen to it anymore without thinking abt him.........#I think it's the voice of the guy in that song. or the line 'I've been lonely too long oh I can't be so strong'#makes him wobble in my brain like a sheet of metal
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her firstborn
..so ugh you know how once there's been only cat and robb in her scary and not very promising newly married life... and how robb was her whole world
and how he really is her whole world in death???
#asoiaf#my art#a song of ice and fire#asos#catelyn tully#catelyn tully stark#robb stark#lady stoneheart#normal#the first one is a loose study of a leyendeckers modern madonna#i feel like lsh looks too neat and theatrical in the second one#i just wanted to give her cut throat jewelery-ish look to mirror her necklace... but idk#and literally giving her robbs head to hold .. umm#kind of tasteless now that i think about it... it looked better in my head#a storm of swords#the red wedding#so... no head :|#(sorry.)#valyrian scrolls
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Kindly asking Vessel to bring the piano only version of Sugar back
Credits: @/jaymw93 on tiktok
#AND DO YOU HEAR THE LADIES??#SWOONING#and his vocalisations??#dude#I haven't stopped thinking about this clip#like he sounds so crisp#Mr Token the first bring the piano version back pretty please#sleep token#st#sundowning#sugar (song)#sugar#vessel#vessel singer#vessel sleep token#vesselettes#esperas
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"I loved a maid as red as autumn,
with sunset in her hair,"
I always think about Sansa when I come across this verse 🥺
#sansa stark#asoiaf#valyrianscrolls#a song of ice and fire#my art#this is my first time drawing Lady omg
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Vote for your favourite horse/horse-adjacent character from Fantasy and Science Fiction books, and yell at me in the replies/comments about your fave that i missed.
#no pegasus or sleipnir bc i'm strictly keeping it to fantasy/scifi books rather than cultural mythology#i tried to limit to one per source except lotr which gets two bc it was The First#the horse and his boy#the narnia chronicles#lord of the rings#the neverending story#the witcher#the wheel of time#a song of ice and fire#the last unicorn#valdemar#shadowfax#bela#bree#binky#artax#bill the pony#roach#the silver#lady amalthea#yfandes#heralds of valdemar
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never thought I’d see the day that people would be angrier about a rap bar than they would about actual child predators but here we are lmao.
#also saw where megan kanka’s father is talking about suing meg for the name drop#which nobody can tell him how to feel#but it’s not going to end with the result he thinks it will#also I can’t help but shake the feeling that it has something to do with onika#bc everytime she gets ate up she starts recruiting people to attack others character#I just hope ppl realize thiis is far beyond rap beef and that actual ppl are being harmed bc of this lady’s actions#and I hope mr. kanka doesn’t get caught up in that web either#but then again��it could be bc of another reason#no disrespect but 🌚🌚#yeah#even though everybody is gagging over the song#it’s also educated a lot of ppl on the law itself and opened up their eyes to it#this isn’t the first time that this stuff has been mentioned in songs#an indie rock band literally used his child’s picture on the cover of their song#there’s like two other tracks called amber alert that I am aware of#and hell even one of my fav artists put the heavens gate cults pics on their artwork#so I don’t think he realizes that it isn’t something he can sue over#what would be tragic is if somebody in his life or nicki’s camp is stirring the pot and pushing him to do so#he takes it to court and they remove her name from it altogether#cherry chats 🍒
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Give me a call if you ever get lonely
I'll be like one of your girls or your homies
Give me a call if you ever get desperate
I'll be like one of your girls
#james bond#q#00q#007#james bond x q#oh boy#it sure has been a while#since i made a 00Q video huh?#i first heard this song only two days ago#and i was SEIZED by inspiration#to all my fellow queers#this song is an absolute BANGER#move over lady gaga#we've got a new queer idol in town#Youtube
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Arya when she comes back to Westeros and finds out she’s married to Ramsay Bolton, her mother is back from the dead and leading the BwB to arrange a Red Wedding 2.0, Jon has been killed by the Night’s Watch bc he had forsaken his oath to go kill Ramsay, Bran is North of the Wall with a talking raven and Rickon is on a cannibal island: 👁️👄👁️
#babygirl is going back to Braavos in the first ship She can find#arya stark#Jon snow#rickon stark#bran stark#ramsay bolton#tyrion lannister#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#lady stoneheart#a dance with dragons#the winds of winter#adwd#twow#jaqen h'ghar#george rr martin#game of thrones#got
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vv interested in the little we get on specifically young alicent’s relationship w criston and how it changes once he’s actually working for her. sansa-esque crush on an idealised version of him honourable white knight who wouldn’t hurt me + much closer to my age than my actual husband + as a kg unattainable enough i’m allowed to like him but of course he likes rhaenyra because rhaenyra’s the princess and she gets EVERYTHING and she doesn’t even like him that much. i’m not jealous i’m not jealous rhaenyra’s my friend etc. + it’s fun that even though after the big timeskip he plays her pseudohusband she’s not interested in him like that anymore bc she knows his actual personality and that he isn’t getting her out
#first quote is from an interview w emily carey btw#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#hotd#house of the dragon#alicent hightower#criston cole#alicole#aemon-naerys esque it’s more honourable for the knight to guard the lady in the tower than it is to rescue her
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AU where Johnny is a teen in the early 2010s and he has the exact same high school experience only after his break up with Ali he has The One That Got Away by Katy Perry on repeat
#johnny lawrence#cobra kai#like I just know he'd have a whole song list of like: enchanted by taylor swift bad romance by lady gaga#kiss me thru the phone by soulja boy#like I know after he broke up with Ali he had so many bad breakup songs on repeat but reimagining it in a 2010s era w songs I grew up with#is making me want to make a whole playlist#he'd watch megamind for the first time and think of it as the most relatable movie in the world#just realized he'd also get to watch the new karate kid movie too#sorry this got away from me-
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Oh sinners come down
Come gather 'round
Have a little fun before they put us in the ground~
#Ye-heheeeeah#It's a good song#gehrmaria#Sketch#Mal doodles#Tw blood#Bloodborne#gehrman the first hunter#lady maria of the astral clocktower#I'm bored :V
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just fucking remembered shut up and drive didnt come out until 2007 so the road trip fic is set in 2007 now
#no longer 2006#im sorry i cannot in good conscious write a road trip fic without GOOD GIRL GONE BAD#im already sacrificing literally every kesha and lady gaga song to set this fic in the 2000s. i cannot do this as well.#man i should have made the road trip playlists before i wrote the fuckin first chapter 💀💀#oops#well whatever. too late now#currently desperately looking at album dates and languishing#NO KESHA 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
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