Talk:Lucinda Bragg Adams

Birth date 1860 vs 1870
@Nirva20

Based on Nirva20's reversions and comments, wanted to open a discussion on Lucinda Bragg Adams' birthdate. Early versions of this page listed 1870. My 2023 revisions revised the date to 1860. Nirva reverted back to 1870.

The only scholarly work based on primary sources that addresses Lucinda Bragg's life with any substance appears to be Norris' 1994 PhD 1994 thesis about postbellum music in Petersburg Virginia. Appendix A page 329 lists birthdate as 1860. The source is not specifically mentioned, but by examination of Chapter 3 and its footnotes, presumably it is Lucinda's sister Carrie Bragg's "Early History of St. Stephen's Church" in the VSU Henry Clay Phillips archive.

There are many early encyclopedic/"who's who"-style books that mention Lucinda that do not give birth date (Scrugg's Women of Distinction, Majors' Noted Negro Women, both from 1893, are the earliest).

Tilghman scholar Juanita Karpf in her 1999 article "The Early Years of African American Music Periodicals" puts forward 1870 as a birth year, this appears based on Burkett/Burkett/Gates' 1991 "Black Biography, 1790-1950", which I haven't read.

Nirva20 changed to 1870, saying that this date made more sense given her 1893 Oberlin degree. But the 1870 birth date doesn't make sense with her teaching career beginning in 1877.

I propose returning the birthdate back to 1860.

Vipavipa (talk) 23:11, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

As most of the dates were 1870, I assumed "1860" was a typo. I propose updating text and categories to reflect disputed or uncertain year of birth. I apologize if I behaved hastily. Yours, Nirva20 (talk) 00:15, 21 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I updated in line with the narrative you have proferred. Yours. Nirva20 (talk) 00:34, 21 February 2024 (UTC)