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This is an excerpt of the Fisk News. The 2nd scanned page includes a section on Lafayette that is located on p. 15 of the March 1954 edition of Fisk News. The short article focuses on her singing career in Europe and her acceptance to give a concert…

This is a screenshot of a yearbook page illustrating Lenora Lafayette's role in the Fisk University Opera.

Lenora Lafayette's performance with Anne Gamble Kennedy [sic] at Fisk University Memorial Chapel, which included pieces by Handel, Scarlatti, and Schumann. Dr. John Hope Franklin was to deliver the 95th Annual Jubilee Day address the following day.

Lenora Lafayette's last-minute performance at Covent Garden in London

Article from The Fisk Herald focusing on Lenora Lafayette's career and upcoming performance at Fisk for the Spring Arts Festival

Program of Lenora Lafayette's performance with pianist Ann Gamble at Fisk Memorial Chapel on Thursday April 22, 8:15pm (based on another press release "Twenty-five years of festivals" from The Fisk Herald, I believe this performance took place in…

Lafayette's success as a soprano in Europe, London's reception of her performance at Covent Garden, and her first operatic experience in "The Marriage of Figaro" at Fisk in 1946

This file includes excerpts of a yearbook from the 1947 edition of Fisk University's The Oval. The excerpts are related to Lenora Lafayette's senior year at Fisk. The pages include images and text. Page 1 shows the yearbook cover. The yearbook's…

This is a handwritten letter from Lenora Lafayette to Dr. Charles S. Johnson requesting that he write a letter of recommendation to the Rosenwald fund on her behalf.

This is a handwritten letter from Lenora Lafayette to Edwin Embree requesting an application blank for the Rosenwald fund.