Madame Emma Azalia Hackley
African-American Classical singer, social worker,
writer, and philanthropist was born this day in 1867.

Madame Hackley believed in the use of African-American
folk music and spirituals as a tool for social change.
Truly setting the stage for the Civil Rights Movement.

"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole
universe to order."
~ Virginia Wolf

Oh, and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burned to the ground this day in 1613.
(During a production of Herny VIII -which wife supplied the fire?)