The following excerpt is from an article written by Peggy Brooks-Bertram.
Drusilla Dunjee Houston was a prolific, but now forgotten,
African-American woman writer of the American West. She was a skilled
journalist, Racial Uplift matriarch, and community builder in early
Oklahoma (Brooks-Bertram 2002, xlii).
We learn from Derek Allen’s 1936
Federal Writers Project report that she was also an accomplished
musician who studied at the Northwestern Conservatory of Music in
Minnesota where she trained in classical piano.
In addition to her
community work, Houston engaged in pioneering African American
scholarship in which she crafted a series of historical texts on ancient
African history, most notably, what she called “The Wonderful
Ethiopians.”
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Source: The Women Film Pioneers Project
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