Eva Jessye
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Eva Jessye was an American conductor and composer who was the first black woman to receive international distinction as a professional choral conductor. She is notable as a choral conductor during the
Jessye from a 1923 publication
Western University (Kansas)
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Western University was a historically black college in Quindaro, Kansas, United States. It was established in 1865 as the Quindaro Freedman's School and closed in 1943. The earliest school for African
Eva Jessye
…with George Gershwin on his innovative opera Porgy and Bess (1935). Eva Jessye was born January 20, 1895, in Coffeyville, Kansas. She was educated at Western University, a historically black university in Kansas, and Langston University in Oklahoma. She later studied privately with Will Marion Cook in New York City…
Western University in the early 1920s, with a statue of John Brown in front of Ward Hall
Ward Hall, c. 1910
Statue of abolitionist John Brown
Plaque marking location of university