Sissieretta Jones: "The Greatest Singer of Her Race," 1868-1933

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: 289 : Abbey, Henry, 12 Abbott, Lynn, 99 Actor’s Fund Fair, 33 Addison, Philip, 237 Adger, Joseph Banneker, 73 Alabama Quartet, 33, 38 Aldrige, Ira, 38 Allen, Mack, 138, 148 Allen, Madame (singer), 22 Allen, Paul, 23, 26 Amateur Dramatic Hall (Providence, R.I.), 10 Andrews, Charles, 60 Angleman, W. S., 66, 67 Arion Lady Quartette, 55 Arneaux, John A., 10 Arnold, Maurice, 81 Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church (Baltimore), 20 “At Jolly Coon-ey Island,” 97, 103, 105, 109–10, 113, 117–18, 124–25 Baham, Angela Dean, 242 Barbados, 16, 17 Barnet, J. H., 102 Barnett, Ferdinand, 72, 74 Barrett, Richard, 165 Baxter, William Sherman, 55 Bayless, W. P., 206 Beecher, William C., 68 Bell, Alexander Graham, 5 Bell, India, 22, 23 Belwood, Hazel, 102 Bergen, Flora Batson, 8, 11–13, 30, 33, 52, 96, 104, 112, 140, 168–69, 170 Bergen, John G., 8, 30, 33, 96, 112, 169 Bergen Star Concerts, 11, 12, 30, 34, 103 Bernhardt, Sarah, 153 Bethune, Thomas Wiggins Green. See Blind Tom Black, William, 114 black audiences, 152, 160, 177–78, 183, 186, 238. See also Jones, Matilda Sissieretta : black audiences black music, 79, 81, 184 Black Patti. See Jones, Matilda Sissieretta Black Patti Musical Comedy Company, 86, 87, 191–96, 198–99, 201, 204, 208–10, 212, 214–28, 280n27 Black Patti Troubadours, 2, 97–98, 100–103, 105–7, 109, 111, 112, 114–17, 272–73n15; 1897–98 season, 118–25; 1898–99 season, 125–29; 1899–1900 season, 129–30; 1900–1902 seasons, 136–41; 1902–3 season, 141–43, 145–47; 1903–4 season, 147–54; 1904–5 season, 154–60; 1905–6 season, 160–67; 1906–7 season, 168–73; 1907–8 season, 173–79; 1908–9 season, 179–90 Blackburn (cakewalker), 34 blackface, 9, 82, 98–99, 161, 200, 214 black-owned theaters, 162, 195 Bland, James, 126 Bledseaux, Zel, 213 Blind Tom, 11 Bohee, May, 102, 103 Bolden, Buddy, 38 Boler, Paul C., 59 Bougia, Charles, 166, 176, 179, 183, 213 Bradley, Orton, 86 Brantford (Ontario) Opera House, 57 Brazil, 18 INDEX 290 : Index British Guiana. See Guyana Brooks, Ellis, 49, 77 Brown, Hattie, 15, 24 Brown, Louis L., 12, 19, 20, 22, 23 Brown, Mattie, 12, 22 Brown, Tom, 97 Brown University, 1 buck dances, 35, 103, 109, 118, 120, 131, 171 Buffalo Exposition, 42, 43 Burleigh, Harry T., 40, 58, 59, 73, 81, 82, 133 Byrd, Anthony D., 102, 118, 123, 148, 156, 193 Byrd, Sarah Green, 190, 198 cakewalk competitions, 33–34, 35, 103, 109, 113–14, 116, 123 Cappiani, Louisa, 52, 63 Carnegie Hall, 40, 59, 86 Carson, William K., 202–3 Carter, Mamie, 166 Cash, Estelle, 206 Cawtee Star Concert Company, 20 Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia), 5 Central Music Hall (Chicago), 53, 55, 56–57 Charters, Ann, 97 Chatteron, Charles F., 35 Cleveland, Grover, 31, 64 Clifford, Maud, 102 Clinton, George, 104 Cochran, J. W., 40 Colden, Melvina, 240 Colden, William, 240 Cole, Bob, 97, 102–3, 105–7, 112–13, 117, 138, 142, 147–48, 150, 154, 157, 161, 172–73, 176, 198–201 Cole, Dora B., 210 Coleman, Will, 118 Collier, S. E., 235 Collins, H. D., 148 Colored Folks Day (World’s Columbian Exposition), 71–72, 73–76 Colvin, Addison, 83 Combries, Adeil Byround de, 21 Companini, Italo, 77 Congdon Street Baptist Church (Providence , R.I.), 1, 5–6, 231, 236 Cook, John H., 73 Cook, Will Marion, 58, 59, 73–76, 117 Cooke, Will A., 127, 148, 179, 183, 209, 219, 223, 225, 227, 231 coon songs, 99, 100, 103, 109, 116 Cordilia, Madame (performer), 118 Corwell, Trevor L., 157, 180 Craig, Walter F., 31, 40 Crenshaw, Daniel, 151, 236 Crosby, James, 146 Crowders, Reuben. See Hogan, Ernest Cuba, 24, 153 Cummings, Harry, 238 Daisy, Lillian, 102 Damrosch, Walter, 93 Damrosch Opera Company, 93, 94 Dandy Dixie Minstrels, 167–68, 176, 188–89, 191, 209, 214 Dandy Jim (cakewalker), 34 Darkest Africa, 114 Daughtry, Willia Estelle, 2, 241 Davidson, J. W., 102 Davis and Goggins, 103 Day, George, 183 De Wolfe Sisters, 102, 103 Detroit Opera House, 57, 58 DeVere, Clementine, 49 Dill, Mollie, 102 Dittenhoefer, A. J., 68 Dixie Troubadours. See Dandy Dixie Minstrels Dobbs, Georgia, 148, 150 Dolgorouky, Lily (princess), 42, 49, 261n39 Douglas, Mrs. Montrose, 171 Douglass, Frederick, 35, 58, 59, 67, 72–75 Douglass, J. H., 83 Douglass, Joseph, 73 Down in Dixie Minstrels, 198 Doyle, Jeannette, 40 Drury, Thomas, 151 Drury Opera Company, 140 Dudley, S. H., 175 Dudley, Sherman H., 198 Dunbar...