A 'hidden figure' no more. Meet the woman who founded nation's first Black opera company - InForum | Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo news, weather and sports

Mary Cardwell Dawson grew up in North Carolina amid the Jim Crow era, and founded the National Negro Opera Company in Pittsburgh in 1941.

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