KING, BETTY JACKSON

KING, BETTY JACKSON. Music educator (17 February 1928 in Chicago, Illinois). As a child she studied piano with her mother, Gertrude Smith Jackson. She began singing in a family trio with her mother and sister Catherine at an early age. She received her musical education in the public schools of Chicago, Illinois, at Wilson Junior College in Chicago, and at Roosevelt University in Chicago (B. Mus., 1950; M. Mus., 1952). She studied further at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan; Glassboro College...