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Maud Cuney Hare

1874–1936

United States

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Maud Cuney Hare (née Cuney, February 16, 1874 – February 13 or 14, 1936) was an American pianist, musicologist, writer, and African-American activist in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. She was born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of famed civil rights leader Norris Wright Cuney, who led the Texas Republican Party during and after the Reconstruction Era, and his wife Adelina (née Dowdie), a schoolteacher. In 1913, Cuney Hare published a biography of her father.

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