March 19, 1962 Mary Cardwell Dawson, musician, teacher and founder of the Negro Opera Company, died. Dawson was born February 14, 1894 in Meridian, North Carolina but raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the New England Conservatory with degrees in piano and voice in 1925 and did additional training at the Chicago Musical College. […]
Archive | March 19, 2011
March 19th in African American History – Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr.
March 19, 1984 Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., civil rights activist and chief lobbyist for the NAACP, died. Mitchell was born March 8, 1911 in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from Lincoln University in 1931 and later earned a law degree from the University of Maryland.