{"id":59744,"date":"2020-06-18T00:31:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T00:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59744"},"modified":"2021-12-04T00:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T00:57:55","slug":"i-have-two-handicaps-i-am-a-woman-and-i-have-some-negro-blood-in-my-veins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59744","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI have two handicaps, I am a woman and I have some Negro blood in my veins.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Florence_Price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Florence] Price<\/a> and her music were well received in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago<\/a>. The great contralto <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marian_Anderson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marian Anderson<\/a> closed her legendary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marian_Anderson#1939_Lincoln_Memorial_concert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1939 Lincoln Memorial concert<\/a> with a piece arranged by Price. Still, she scraped to make ends meet, writing pop tunes and accompanying silent films. In 1943, she sent a letter to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Serge_Koussevitzky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Serge Koussevitzky<\/a>, conductor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Symphony_Orchestra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston Symphony Orchestra<\/a>, acknowledging what she was up against. \u201cI have two handicaps,\u201d she wrote: \u201cI am a woman and I have some Negro blood in my veins.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tom Huizenga, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Revisiting The Pioneering Composer Florence Price<\/a>,\u201d <em>All Things Considered<\/em>, National Public Radio, January 21, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/01\/21\/686622572\/revisiting-the-pioneering-composer-florence-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/01\/21\/686622572\/revisiting-the-pioneering-composer-florence-price<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Florence] Price and her music were well received in Chicago. The great contralto Marian Anderson closed her legendary 1939 Lincoln Memorial concert with a piece arranged by Price. Still, she scraped to make ends meet, writing pop tunes and accompanying silent films. In 1943, she sent a letter to Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2342,32540,32467,30896,2309,2833,32507,30897],"class_list":["post-59744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-all-things-considered","tag-florence-b-price-2","tag-florence-beatrice-price","tag-florence-price","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-serge-koussevitzky","tag-tom-huizenga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62497,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59744\/revisions\/62497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}