New nonfiction picture book tells the little-known story of Florence Beatrice “Bea” Price, one of the greatest female black classical composers New York, New York October 2024 — Calkins Creek, the ...
Florence Beatrice Price (1887–1953) grew up in Little Rock, Ark., listening to “Juba dance and jammin’ banjo rhythms.” Leaving the segregated South to pursue opportunity, she attended the New England ...