Playlist Etta Moten Barnett
Etta Moten Barnett
The Many Pioneering Lives of Etta Moten Barnett
Daniel HautzingerShe went from being a young mother from Texas to becoming one of the first black women to appear onscreen not as a stereotype and the first to sing at the White House. Gershwin wanted her for Porgy and Bess – and later she became a liasion to Africa and a Chicago cultural patron.