9:54pm PDT - September 15th, 2021

16Sept/1946: Mamie Smith - American singer, dancer, pianist, actor - dies in penury in New York City. She’ll be buried in an unmarked grave at Frederick Douglass Memorial Park in Staten Island. No headstone will be erected until 2013. https://t.co/6eZPS7Aj9r

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