BROWN, ANITA PATTI

BROWN, ANITA PATTI (née PATSY DEAN). Concert singer (c1870s-80s in Georgia (?); 1950s in Chicago, Illinois). Little is known of her early career. According to the press, she was born in Georgia, spent her childhood in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and began her career singing in an AME Church choir in Indianapolis, Indiana. She apparently settled in Chicago, Illinois, during the first years of the twentieth century. Her appearance at the Chicago Opera House in March 1903 was stated by the press to be...