Historic Marker honoring
Nellie Brown Mitchell and Edward Everett Brown
Located at Pine Hill Cemetery, 131 Central Ave, Dover
Nellie Brown Mitchell was a successful Black soprano concert singer, music educator, inventor, and activist. She was a native of Dover. Her brother, Edward Everett Brown was a lawyer and civil rights activist. He was born in Dover.
Support for this historic marker comes from an “ACLS Sustaining Public Engagement Grants, made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)’s Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP).”
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