Leontyne Price

Ancestors

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Biography

Leontyne Price is Notable.

Leontyne Price was awarded the Spingarn Medal for outstanding achievement by an African American.

Leontyne Price is an American soprano who was the first African American soprano to receive international acclaim.^[1]

Mary Violet Leontyne Price was born in 1927. She is the daughter of James Price and Kate Baker.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leontyne_Price

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM1C-TF8 : accessed 11 February 2020), Mary L Price in household of James A Price, Laurel, Jones, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 10, sheet 37B, line 81, family 831, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1151; FHL microfilm 2,340,886.