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Title
A. C. Bilbrew playing a piano, circa 1963
Alternative Title
A.C. Bilbrew, community leader, musician, poet, and deputy to Kenneth Hahn (County Supervisor)
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa 1963]
1963
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
A. C. Bilbrew playing a piano.
Madame A. C. Bilbrew was the director of the first black choir featured in a film, 1928's Hearts of Dixie, which also happened to be the first black "talkie." She was also a pioneer in radio, becoming the first African American soloist on the radio in 1923, and later, the first African American to have and host a show in 1942. She was a cast member of the movie The Foxes of Harrow in 1947. Bilbrew was a champion of women's rights and childhood literacy; she was a community leader, musician, poet, and deputy to Kenneth Hahn (County Supervisor) A Los Angeles branch library is named after her.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b06_f12_001.tif
ark:/21198/z1zg8979
Subject
African American women singers
African American women musicians
Bilbrew, A. C. (Alice C.), 1891-1972
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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