Ina Ray Hutton
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Ina Ray Hutton was an American singer, bandleader, and the elder sister of June Hutton. She led one of the first all-female big bands.
Hutton in 1942
Ad for a Hutton concert at the Army Air Base, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 22, 1942
The Chicago Defender
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The Chicago Defender is a Chicago-based online African-American newspaper. The newspaper was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind. Abb
Ina Ray Hutton
…US Census as "mulatto" and in 1930 as "negro". Hutton was also mentioned under her birth name Odessa Cowan in the African American Chicago newspaper The Chicago Defender in several articles describing the early years of her career. A photograph of her as a 7-year-old dancer in an all-Black dance troupe appeared in a…
Coverage of the National Negro Congress in the Defender, February 22, 1936
Coverage of the 25th anniversary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in the Defender, September 23, 1950