Identifier: womenofdistincti00scru (find matches)
Title: Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Scruggs, L. A. (Lawson Andrew), 1857-1914
Subjects: North Caroliniana African American women African Americans Women
Publisher: Raleigh : L. A. Scruggs
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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e St. Clair and Miss Viola Townes(now Mrs. Pilkington) for a gold watch. All three ofthese ladies occupied high rank in musical circles andwere well prepared for the contest. However, aftermature consideration, judgment was rendered in favor ofMiss Virginia E. M. Hunt (Scott), to whom was awardedthe prize. In 1885 she attended the renowned Dr. Palmers Cho-ral Union, where she was the only colored participant ina class of between two and three hundred singers. She is still rising in eminence as a public performer,and is doing much to elevate her race by teaching othersto skillfully manipulate instrumental keys. Beginning life in humble circumstances, with all thediscouragements that beset her pathway, she now standshio^h in the estimation of the verv lar^e church whichshe still serves and of which she is now a member,reflecting credit upon the race, and at the same timeaffording a living example of the possibilities, for thoseupon whose childhood it may seem that fortune has notsmiled.
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MRS. ROSA D. BOWSER. WOMEN OP^ DISTINCTION. 28:i CHAPTER LXXV. MRS. ROSA D. BOWSER. On their arrival in the South the teachers from theNorth found an almost impenetrable wilderness of igno-rance-. Only here and there could be found a coloredfamily with a single member able to read. Whereverthis was true it was a mark of superior natural intelli-gence, for with the stringent laws prohibiting the negrofrom reading he must be no ordinary man who wouldrun the awful risk of being found with a book in hishand. Of such parents was the subject of our sketchborn. Henry Dixon, a cabinet maker by trade, and anative of Amelia county, was no ordinar) man, and hisdaughter, Rosa, whom he brought with him to Rich-mond when only a wee tot, inherited from him in largermeasure, perhaps, than from her noble mother the traitsof character that have distinguished her career. Obedi-ent, thoughtful and quick to understand, it was not longbefore her teachers were.convinced that she would be nomean leader of he

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