Searching for Ella
/New York Times reporter Nina Bernstein talks about discovering Ella Fitzgerald's hidden past at the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreNew York Times reporter Nina Bernstein talks about discovering Ella Fitzgerald's hidden past at the Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreOn April 10, 1933, a fifteen-year-old “colored” girl named Ella Fitzgerald was sentenced to the New York State Training School for Girls in Hudson, NY.
Read MoreJazz singer Ella Fitzgerald kept secret the cruelest chapter of her own history: her confinement for over a year in a reformatory as an orphaned teenager.
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