JONES, MILDRED BRYANT

JONES, MILDRED BRYANT. Educator (Fl. early twentieth century in Chicago, Illinois; 1950s in Chicago). She obtained her musical education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee; Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts; and the Lyceum Arts Conservatory in Chicago, Illinois (B. Mus., 1921). She was the first black teacher in Chicago to pass the examination to teach music in the city's high schools. In 1920 she became head of the music...