by Ariana Raduege | Aug 5, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022
Arthur Rudolph Grant was born in 1887 to Jeffry and Diana Grant in Jacksonville, Florida[1]. He started music at a young age, being listed as a music teacher as early as age twelve in the 1900 US census. His educational career continued, as the 1910 US census lists...
by Lizzie Gray | Aug 3, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Lizzie Gray
If you’ve looked at the maps of the 30 graduates of the Washington Conservatory of Music between 1910 and 1914, you might notice that not all 30 of those alumni are represented. What happened to those graduates? Why aren’t they included? While most alumni of the music...
by Jack Slavik | Jul 29, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Jack Slavik
Teachers have lives outside of school? Children may not understand the extent to which teachers, like Elsie Wiggins, can be deeply involved in their community. Elsie Adele Wiggins (1896-1963) was a teacher and activist in early twentieth-century Washington, DC. As a...
by Ariana Raduege | Jun 29, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022
We’ve begun delving into the archival databases and working to form reconstructive biographies on the graduates of the Washington Conservatory of Music from 1910-1914. This unfortunately means that we don’t have a lot of the answers, but we’re using what we can find...
by Lizzie Gray | Jun 28, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Lizzie Gray
The founder of the Columbus branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians hosted the fourth annual convention of the organization, encouraging the perception that “there are more colored musicians in Columbus than in most cities.”1 In an interview,...
by Davis Moore | Jun 28, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Davis Moore
Continued from Part I here. One of the conservatory’s graduates who I’ve looked into very closely thus far is Jewel Jennifer. Jennifer was born in Texas in 1897 to William Jennifer and Syme L. Jennifer.1 She had three siblings—Harold, William Emile, and Archibald.2...
