Roland Hayes on Program Cover

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This image of Roland Hayes, the internationally known African American tenor, appeared on a program for a 1937 concert he gave in New York City. Hayes began his career with the renowned Jubilee Singers at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and performed his final concert over fifty years later at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Courtesy of University of Iowa Libraries, Redpath Chautauqua Collection.

Roland Hayes on Program Cover

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