Singer Alberta Hunter was a pioneering African-American jazz, blues and pop music artist. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Laura Peterson, who worked as a maid in a Memphis brothel, and Charles Hunter, a Pullman porter. By the age of 12, Hunter had relocated to Chicago. She worked in a kitchen, peeling potatoes by day; […]
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