For Black History Month, a brief introduction to the Hyers Sisters, pathbreaking black singers and actors, whom I only just learned about while putting together my recent post on bandmaster Patrick Gilmore, who booked them for the World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival in 1872. It has been plausibly claimed that the Hyers Sisters […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:12AM on February 1, 2025