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Papers. 1905-1978.

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Singer and professor of music, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Chiefly programs from Brice's appearances in recitals, concerts, and operas, together with announcements, brochures, posters, clippings, photos, and other related publicity material; and ca. 700 family, personal, and business letters (1927-78), diaries (partial, 1934, 1936, 1946), documents and lists (1940-44), and memorabilia (1916-55). Includes material on her performance at the third inauguration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941), winning of the Walter H. Naumburg Foundation prize, appearances with Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, tours of South America and Germany, and roles in the operas Regina and Porgy and Bess, and musical Showboat; papers (1968-78) documenting the career of her second husband, Thomas Devore Carey (b. 1931), singer and professor of music, University of Oklahoma; letters by and about her aunt, Dr. Charlotte (Hawkins) Brown (1883-1961), founder of Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, N.C., where Brice was educated; letters (1954-60), reflecting struggles of black performers in Europe from singer Vera Little (b. ca. 1915). Material on other black singers and musicians, including Marian Anderson, Harry Thacker Burleigh, Ellabelle Davis, Roland Wiltse Hayes, Dorothy Maynor, Paul Robeson, and Neil Scott (Brice's first husband). Other correspondents include family members and Frank Goodall Harrison, professor of music at Talladega College (Ala.), where Brice also studied.

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Palmer Memorial Institute (Sedalia, N.C.)

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Palmer Memorial Institute was founded by Charlotte (Hawkins) Brown in Sedalia, N.C., in 1902; after graduating more than one thousand African Americans, the school closed in 1971, ten years after Hawkins Brown's death; Bennett College purchased the campus in 1980 and it is now the site of the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial. From the description of Palmer Memorial Institute records, 1923-1986. (Bennett College). WorldCat record id: 70963007 ...

Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993

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Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897 (although throughout much of her life she gave her birth date as February 17, 1902) in south Philadelphia. Her father, John Berkley Anderson, sold ice and coal and her mother Annie Delilah Rucker Anderson was a former schoolmistress. She was the oldest of three sisters. She began singing when she was six, in the church choir, and by eight had become a regular substitute, filling in for absent sopranos, tenors and even bass. She was presented in one c...

Hayes, Roland W., 1887-1977

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Roland Hayes (June 3, 1887 – January 1, 1977) was an American lyric tenor and composer. Critics lauded his abilities and linguistic skills demonstrated with songs in French, German and Italian. Earlier African-American concert artists were not recorded because in their day recording companies were only interested in a vaudeville type of singer. Hayes was one of the first to break this barrier and in 1939 he recorded with Columbia. Earlier both Marian Anderson and Paul Robeson had recorded from t...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Carey, Thomas Devore, 1931-

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Brown, Charlott (Hawkins), 1883-1961.

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Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949

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African American composer H.T. (Harry Thacker) Burleigh was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1866. In 1892, he enrolled in the National Conservatory of Music in New York City where he also took a job as assistant to composer Antonin Dvorak. Burleigh graduated in 1896 and continued teaching sight singing at the Conservatory until 1898. In 1894, he became the first African American to hold the position of baritone soloist at St. George's Episcopal Church in lower Manhattan, a position he held for 50 ...

Davis, Ellabelle, 1907-1960

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Brice, Carol, 1916-1985

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Scott, Neil, 1943-1982

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Little, Vera, ca. 1915-

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Harrison, Frank, 1940-2009

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Maynor, Dorothy

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Singer. From the description of Reminiscences of Dorothy Maynor : oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733402 ...