Nora Holt (1885-1974)
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Nora Holt was born in 1885 in Kansas City and graduated from Western University, the first HBCU west of the MS. Holt went on to become the first Black person in the U.S. to earn a master’s degree in music and later created 200 compositions. #BlackHistoryMonth #kansascityhistory #noraholt