| Harriet Gibbs Marshall was born in Victoria, British Columbia, (1868-1941). In 1869 her family moved to Oberlin, Ohio. Marshall began her study of
music at the age of nine and continued the pursuit at the Oberlin
Conservatory of Music where she studied piano, pipe organ, and voice
culture. Graduating in 1889, she was the first African American to
complete the program and earn a Mus.B. degree, which at the time was
Oberlin’s equivalent of a Bachelor of Music degree. |
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