Prejudice and politics wounded Conrad deeply, but in the media she appeared stoic.
In 1957, Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student found herself at the epicenter of racial controversy, struggling against the odds and ultimately ascending to the heights of international opera.
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