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Wed, 11.12.1941

The National Negro Opera Company is Founded

On this date in 1941, opera singer Mary Cardwell Dawson founded the National Negro Opera Company.

Based in Pittsburgh, the Opera Company remained in the steel city until 1960 and lasted until 1962.

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It is essential I remember ours was a fair exchange. We were a happy consequence to paths of darkness in a world no less terrible or strange for all our... MAN WHITE, BROWN GIRL AND ALL THAT JAZZ by Gloria C. Oden.
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