Lucille Bogan was a blues singer, and among one of the first black women to be recorded. She was recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. Bogan was one of 'the big three of the blues,' along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Many of Bogan's songs were sexually explicit, and she was generally considered to […]

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