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A number of sources point to Hattie McDaniel.
"Hattie McDaniel
Hattie was born on June 10, 1895 in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of a
Baptist minister and a spiritual singer. At the age of 15 she won a
medal in dramatic art, but later started her career as a band
vocalist. She worked as a singer with Professor George Morrison's
Orchestra in 1915, touring the country. She became the first African
American to sing on network radio in the United States."
source: TeacherLink
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/ByrnesS2003/molkir.htm#Hattie%20McDaniel
"Hattie McDaniel
She became the first African American to sing on network radio in the
United States."
source: Do You Know Your History?
http://www.andlin.co.uk/Bfuture/help_history4.htm
"Hattie McDaniel
Hattie was born on June 10, 1895 in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of a
Baptist minister and a spiritual singer. At the age of 15 she won a
medal in dramatic art, but later started her career as a band
vocalist. She worked as a singer with Professor George Morrison's
Orchestra in 1915, touring the country. She became the first African
American to sing on network radio in the United States."
http://members.aol.com/ttelracs/Hattie.htm
"June 10, 1895 Hattie McDaniel Born
Hattie McDaniel the first African American to receive an Academy
Award and the first African American to sing on national radio in the
United States is born in Wichita, Kansas."
source: The History Makers
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/timeline/index.asp?year=1895&anchor=
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Note that a similar claim is made about a singer named Ethel Waters:
"an April 1922 concert being broadcast in five states as well as in Mexico
(which made Ethel Waters the first black woman to sing on radio),"
From: "Black Swan Records ? 1921-1924: From a Swanky Swan to a Dead ..."
http://www.ou.nl/open/ebb-colloq/pdf/Ivo_De_Loo_black_swan.pdf
search strategy:
"first african american to sing" radio
"first black * to sing" radio
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