{"id":48569,"date":"2016-08-06T00:29:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T00:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48569"},"modified":"2017-03-23T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T19:00:13","slug":"a-biography-of-e-azalia-smith-hackley-1867-1922-african-american-singer-and-social-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48569","title":{"rendered":"A Biography Of E. Azalia Smith Hackley (1867-1922), African-american Singer And Social Activist"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Biography Of E. Azalia Smith Hackley (1867-1922), African-american Singer And Social Activist<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Edwin Mellen Press<\/a>
\n2001
\n436 pages
\nISBN: 978-0-7734-7575-5<\/p>\n

Lisa Pertillar Brevard<\/strong><\/a>, Core Faculty and Academic Coordinator of Humanities
\nWalden University<\/em><\/p>\n

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Madame E. Azalia Hackley<\/a> was an African American classical singer, social worker, writer, philanthropist, and activist who championed the use of African-American spirituals among the African-American people as a tool for social change. Her efforts laid the groundwork for the use of spirituals as freedom songs during the Civil Rights Movement<\/a>. This work used newspaper accounts and archive studies documenting Madame Hackley\u2019s tours cross-country and abroad to raise funds for African-American classical musicians. It show Hackley\u2019s intense devotion to her African-American roots, as she easily could have passed for white<\/a>. Nevertheless, she traveled throughout the South in \u2018Jim Crow<\/a>\u2019 railway cars by choice. This work also recovers several of her influential published works, including A Guide to Voice Culture<\/em> (1909); The Colored Girl Beautiful<\/em> (1916), an etiquette book for African-American women desiring professional jobs; and \u201cHints to Young Colored Artists\u201d, a series of articles designed to help young African-American classical musicians succeed. Includes illustrations.<\/p>\n

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