Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Gertrude Pridgett, known to history as blues icon Ma Rainey, never seemed like a knowable figure to ...
With a day in her life captured on film, ET looks back on Ma became an icon of a generation and inspired artists for years to come. Ma Rainey’s title as the “mother of the blues” is an ode to her ...
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