MARSHALL, HARRIET GIBBS

MARSHALL, HARRIET GIBBS. Director of conservatory (18 February 1869 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 25 February 1941 in Washington, D.C.). She attended public schools in Oberlin, Ohio, and was the first black American to complete the piano course at the Oberlin Conservatory (1889). Later she studied in Boston, Chicago, and with Moritz Moszowski in Paris, France. She toured briefly as a concert pianist before beginning a teaching career at the Normal School in Huntsville, Alabama. Thereafter...