When 16-year-old Ella Fitzgerald stepped onto the stage to perform at Harlem’s Apollo Theater in 1934, she had no idea that her life was about to change. Her childhood had been    36  . After the death of her parents, Fitzgerald had been placed in a boarding school.   37  , the teachers at the school mistreated her,   38   she ran away. Homeless and orphaned, Fitzgerald was trying her best to   39   on the streets of New York City when she won a contest to perform during an amateur night at the Apollo. She had   40   planned to dance, but at the last second, she decided to sing her mother’s favorite song   41  . Her performance earned her   42   from several well-known musicians. Ella Fitzgerald went on to become a   43   jazz singer.
During a musical career that spanned six decades, Fitzgerald   44   more than 200 albums. She won 13 Grammy Awards, the last of which she received in 1990. She worked with some of the greatest American singers of the twentieth century, including Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, and Dizzy Gillespie. Her talent and charm   45  a wide range of listeners around the world. The worldwide   46   of Ella Fitzgerald helped make jazz a more popular genre.
Until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the United States   47   African American citizens the same treatment   48   white citizens received. Fitzgerald’s manager and her band   49   to perform at places where discrimination was practiced. They also decided not to perform unless they were paid the same   50   as white singers and musicians. Ella’s fight for   51   received support from numerous celebrity admirers, including Marilyn Monroe. Fitzgerald never took her good fortune for granted. She gave money to charities and organizations that contributed to   52   disadvantages children. For her many civic contributions, in 1992 President George Bush   53   her the Presidential Medal of Honor, one of the highest honors   54   to civilians.
In 1991, Fitzgerald gave her   55   performance in New York’s Carnegie Hall. Although Ella Fitzgerald died in 1996, the American “First Lady of Song” continues to live in the hearts and ears of music lovers worldwide.

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