Bøker av Meredith Coleman McGee

Billie Holiday: Jazz Singer is a full-length biography about Billie Holiday, known famously as Lady Day, from her birth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to her childhood in Baltimore, Maryland, through her 30-year career as a singer, actor, and author by Meredith Coleman McGee. The late great Lady Day became the defining voice in jazz in Harlem, New York in 1933. Her 1939 recording of the protest song, Strange Fruit, made her a superstar, a race woman, and a target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Though Billie Holiday passed over 64 years ago, her musical influence is wide reaching, and her legacy is everlasting.

Kay and her pet dog Baby Bubba are best friends. Baby Bubba narrates this story and takes readers on a journey which describes friendship, loss, emotions, and everyday fun. Baby Bubba loves dog treats, dog bones, and food scrapes from the kitchen table. Kay loves reading fairy tales to Baby Bubba. Though the two like different activities they find common ground and make time to have fun around the house. Friendships are tested. But true friends are forever.

This book provides an honest look at the life and times of Civil Rights icon James Howard Meredith within the context of the America that created him and his generation.