12019-03-12T23:58:46+00:00Stanford University Pressaf84c3e11fe030c51c61bbd190fa82a3a1a1282413plainpublished2019-10-04T21:54:58+00:00AnonymousDarryl Glenn Nettles, African American Concert Singers before 1950 (New York: McFarland, 2003), 21.
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12019-03-12T23:56:34+00:00December 30, 19166plainpublished2019-10-04T21:54:35+00:00On December 30, 1916, the Philadelphia Tribune ran an obituary on the front page for Sarah Sedgewick Bowers-Bell, a concert soprano known as the “colored Nightingale.” The Tribune described her as a “member of one of the oldest families in the city,” and her brothers John and Thomas Bowers were also accomplished musicians.168
