and entertainer Hazel Scott as a reference.
A musical prodigy, Hazel Scott was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1920, and was brought to NYC at the age of four. By the time she was eight, she was attending the Juilliard School on scholarship and by her teens she was an accomplished pianist performing in a jazz band and on the radio. In the early 1940s, Scott began making films in Hollywood. She refused to be cast as a demeaning stereotype, instead often appearing as herself (and insisted on being credited as such). By the mid-1940s, Scott was a major star, and in 1950 she became the first person of African descent to have their own television show in America, The Hazel Scott Show. When McCarthyism waylaid her career she moved to France, only returning to the US in 1967, after the Civil Rights Movement had ended segregation. This is a medium-large scale print suitable for apparel. Also available in brown. Through 2020 I will be donating any commission earned on this design to charities supporting the Black Lives Matter movement.