PITTMAN, PORTIA WASHINGTON

PITTMAN, PORTIA WASHINGTON. Music educator (6 June 1883 in Tuskegee, Alabama; 26 February 1978 in Washington, D.C.). Her father, Booker Taliaferro Washington, encouraged her early interest in music and she studied piano as a child. She obtained her musical training at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where her father was president; at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and at Bradford Junior College in Massachusetts, from which she was graduated in 1905. She then went to Berlin, Germany, where she...