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North Carolina native Mary Cardwell Dawson founded the National Negro Opera Company in Pittsburgh in 1941, the first commercially successful Black opera company in the United States.
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A new exhibition on Mary Cardwell Dawson, founder of the National Negro Opera Company, opens March 26 at the Charlotte Museum of History. The company was established in 1941 and is the first successful Black opera company in the country.

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