{"id":98,"date":"2015-02-10T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gildedageincolor.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2015-02-17T01:48:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T01:48:50","slug":"abbie-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Abbie Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-100\" src=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/abbie-mitchell-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"abbie-mitchell\" width=\"129\" height=\"225\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mitchell3-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"mitchell3\" width=\"189\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mitchell3-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/mitchell3.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/>Abbie Mitchell was an African American soprano opera singer who, after completing her secondary education in a convent in Baltimore, studied voice in New York in 1897.<\/p>\n<p>In London she premiered in the principal role in the 1903 musical \u201c In Dahomey\u201d and would later star as &#8220;Clara&#8221; in the premier production of George Gershwin&#8217;s Porgy and Bess.<\/p>\n<p>In Newport, Ms. Mitchell appeared at Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt\u2019s Newport Theatre Party in 1902.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Vanderbilt also provided financial support to the Shiloh Baptist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbie Mitchell was an African American soprano opera singer who, after completing her secondary education in a convent in Baltimore, studied voice in New York in 1897. In London she premiered in the principal role in the 1903 musical \u201c In Dahomey\u201d and would later star as &#8220;Clara&#8221; in the premier production of George Gershwin&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/?p=98\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abbie Mitchell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}