MITCHELL, ABBIE

MITCHELL, ABBIE. Concert singer/Actress (25 September 1884 in New York, New York; 16 March 1960 in New York, New York). She attended public schools in Baltimore, Maryland and began appearing in local church entertainments as a child. She began her professional career at fourteen, when she joined Will Marion Cook's show, Clorindy, or the Origin of the Cakewalk during its run in 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. In December of that year she joined Black Patti's Troubadours. For the...