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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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The promises of a thousand suns, Printless ground, swirling flakes against the sky. Morning in the heart of this surprised city, Laid siege by a March storm, Found me listening to out-of-tuned guitars; Slack... LATE-WINTER BLUES AND PROMISES OF LOVE by Houston A. Baker Jr.
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