Etta Moten Barnett: African American Vocalist Too Actress

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPe4iab4CyCG3l4CSIEmCxjzUSj7SHSsLxlxXkrO8PmXrxuulndS1S9cATlwufW35Wl7y7Wt7SCsg5GR7nOnX0hTzShDkZpbCkFZxVCUOGDQdw1HUuQEKtFI7bpBvL5Uj51a8yX-IXPk4/s1600-h/Etta_Moten_Barnett.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPe4iab4CyCG3l4CSIEmCxjzUSj7SHSsLxlxXkrO8PmXrxuulndS1S9cATlwufW35Wl7y7Wt7SCsg5GR7nOnX0hTzShDkZpbCkFZxVCUOGDQdw1HUuQEKtFI7bpBvL5Uj51a8yX-IXPk4/s200/Etta_Moten_Barnett.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Etta Moten Barnett </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(b. Nov. 5, 1901 – d. Jan. 2, 2004)</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">i</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">n Gershwin's </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Porgy in addition to Bess</span></span></i></b></div><br /> <i>Etta Moten Barnett has been a tireless pioneer inwards her career every bit a musical performer, actress, in addition to community activist.</i> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>THE EARLY LIFE OF ETTA MOTEN BARNETT</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Etta Moten Barnett was born inwards Weimer, Texas on Nov 5, 1901. The alone kid of Rev. Freeman F. Moten, an African Methodist Episcopal minister, and schoolhouse instructor Ida Moten, she remembers her childhood fondly every bit a fourth dimension of singing amongst the choir inwards her father's church. It was at Paul Quinn College inwards Texas that the lineament of her singing vocalisation was rootage rewarded amongst an educational scholarship. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moten went on to attend Western University, an Historically Black University (HBU) in Kansas. Her professional person singing career took off i time she joined the Jackson Jubilee Singers and went on to sing amongst the renowned Eva Jessye Choir.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>EARLY BLACK ACTRESSES</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moten was discovered every bit an actress past times a talent lookout for the 1931 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers classic moving-picture exhibit <i>Flying</i> <i>Down to Rio</i>. She is best remembered, however, for her role every bit the incarnate heroine Bess inwards the master copy George Gershwin production of the pop musical <i>Porgy in addition to Bess</i>. Gershwin chose Eva Jessye every bit the choral managing director for the 1935 opera production of <i>Porgy in addition to Bess</i>. </div><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7poDdIc2jA4NzarZ5LwxXLX2AL36aAO64110R8DKinpdbUpepn1ySEOg-5IO4J3obMiOT906-497CCZBhcUV8u4td1P3CcoREgTOIfaLWpwe7vJC7ZzMMDm3UHsyuZ0ZrUK-Azpx2TVM/s1600-h/Porgyandbess.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7poDdIc2jA4NzarZ5LwxXLX2AL36aAO64110R8DKinpdbUpepn1ySEOg-5IO4J3obMiOT906-497CCZBhcUV8u4td1P3CcoREgTOIfaLWpwe7vJC7ZzMMDm3UHsyuZ0ZrUK-Azpx2TVM/s320/Porgyandbess.gif" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: 1935 Cast of <i>Porgy in addition to Bess</i></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(photographer Richard Tucker. Oct. 10, 1935. </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Courtesy of the Library of Congress)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">A pioneering Black musical performer, Etta Moten Barnett broke the cinema industry's colouring fabric barrier every bit the rootage Black performer to play in a film role that was non a domestic role, when she performed inwards <i>The Gold Diggers</i> inwards 1933. </div><br /> <div align="center"><object height="244" width="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3jIofWwupLA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3jIofWwupLA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="325" height="244"></embed></object></div><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;">As a Chicago resident, Moten was active inwards promoting the arts through the South Side Community Art Center in addition to DuSable Museum of African American History. Moten was appointed past times the U.S. federal regime every bit a cultural ambassador to 10 African countries. In shaped this role every bit an chance to led cultural telephone commutation missions betwixt African Americans in addition to Africans. Moten was an active fellow member of the National Council of Negro Women inwards Chicago. </div><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuazKqdQZChES361u87Ds3WtXNpLz0uOYtMYIgsDwz0kshKZUYwhO7xuvDJwBaYeZGFDC3jye04PfUPPB-xuh_T5ooXuiuylQJIxrtcc_skV1l7QizvQLIMowyLmaCEZ7NJHJSPqqOhpE/s1600-h/3619+King+Drive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuazKqdQZChES361u87Ds3WtXNpLz0uOYtMYIgsDwz0kshKZUYwhO7xuvDJwBaYeZGFDC3jye04PfUPPB-xuh_T5ooXuiuylQJIxrtcc_skV1l7QizvQLIMowyLmaCEZ7NJHJSPqqOhpE/s320/3619+King+Drive.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Photo: The belatedly Etta Moten Barnett's domicile inwards Chicago </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>3619 S. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive</b></div><br /> <i><br /> </i></div>

Etta Moten Barnett: African American Vocalist Too Actress

Photo: Etta Moten Barnett (b. Nov. 5, 1901 – d. Jan. 2, 2004) in Gershwin's Porgy in addition to Bess Etta Moten Barnett has been a tireless pioneer inwards her career every bit a musical performer, a…

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