Caterina Jarboro was an African-American opera singer. She was the first female black opera singer ever to sing on an opera stage in America, twenty-two years before Marian Anderson. Jarboro was born one of three children in Wilmington, North Carolina, to an American Indian mother and a black father who was a local barber. She […]
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