AAMP held a Pearl Bailey exhibition in the early 1990s ... Bailey’s scrapbooks hark back to a time 60 years ago when color television was new and Black women were still seen in subservient ...

Pearl Mae Bailey was born March 29 th, 1918 and died on August 17 th, 1990. When she was 15 years old Pearl took first prize singing a song at an amateur contest held at the Pearl Theatre in ...

Bailey returned to Philadelphia from her home in Lake Havasu, Ariz., in 1990 on Annenberg’s advice to have her knees replaced at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. While recovering at the ...