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- ↑ Countermelody, Episode 75, Leonora Lafayette (Black History Month 2021 III)
- ↑ Dartisha L. Mosley and Raquelle K. Bostow: Women of Rosenwald: Curating Social Justice through the Arts (1928 - 1948)
- ↑ Kyla Dean Pitcher: The Musical Journey of Opera Singer Leonora Lafayette: A Louisiana Treasure, Doctoral Dissertation LSU, 2006
- ↑ Countermelody, Episode 75, Leonora Lafayette (Black History Month 2021 III)
- ↑ Wiener Staatsoper: Performances with Leonora Lafayette
- ↑ Leonora Lafayette, Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online
- ↑ "Before Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, before Joplin's Treemonisha, there was Delius' Koanga: Opera in Three Acts with Prologue and Epilogue - The FIRST African-American Opera"
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