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020			_a978-1-61851-194-2
040			_cNew Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library
100			_9419 _aSusan Engle
245			_aHazel Scott: A Woman, a Piano, and a Commitment to Justice
260			_aWilmette, Illinois _bBelwood Press _c2021
300			_a177 p. illus
440			_9849 _aChangeMaker Series
500			_aHazel Scott was a champion for civil and women’s rights. Born in Trinidad in 1920, she moved with her family to the United States in 1924, where she played her first professional recital at age 5 and was accepted as a private student to study piano at The Juilliard School, a private performing arts conservatory in New York City, at age 8. By the time she was thirteen, she was being booked for performances as “Little Miss Hazel Scott—Child Wonder Pianist,” and soon afterward became an accomplished singer as well. In 1938, she was cast in her first Broadway musical—Sing Out the News. Shortly afterward, she recorded her first solo album—Swinging the Classics: Piano Solos in Swing Style with Drums—and appeared in her first film, Something to Shout About. As her musical and film career grew, she made headlines by standing up for the rights of women and African Americans, and she refused to play for segregated audiences. When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., led the March on Washington in August, 1963, Hazel led a march in Paris, where she was living, in front of the American Embassy. She learned about the Bahá’í Faith from Dizzy Gillespie and became a Bahá’í on December 1, 1968. She passed away in 1981.
600		0	_91005 _aHazel Scott
650		0	_9170 _aBiography _vBaha'i Faith
650		0	_91006 _aMusicians _vBaha'i Faith
700			_9421 _aLuthando Mazibuko _eIllustrator
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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