TRUE LIFE SITUATIONS: I'M NO GHOST WHISPERER LIFE OF CAMILLA WILLIAMS (731 hits)
In fact, I never encourage such spirits as ghosts to be part of my spiritual living. I have encountered strange happenings in my past of which I had no real explanation for, and I have also been subject of spiritual goodness encounters where I know the messenger was Holy. I practice living in spirit as displayed by bibical teachings where I worship the Almighty God of Spirit; and this is certainly no spirit of darkness, but of Light.
Often, I run across something I feel I need to make mention of, or a person whom I never knew somehow makes an nudge into my life's curiosity. This leads me to tell about a person I wanted to bring attention to as part of Women's History Month. Her name is Camilla Williams. Born October 18, 1919, her part in history was she was believed to be the first-African American woman to appear with a major U.S. opera company. The Black Opera pioneer made her debut with the New York City Opera on May 15, 1946. She came nearly 9 years before Marion Anderson's apperance at the New York's Metropolitian Opera. Camilla first appeared overseas in 1950 on a concert tour of Panama, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. In 1954 she was the first black art to sing a major role with the Vienna State Opera. Collins was a daughter of a chauffeur, and grew up in Danville, Va where she met a segregated Welch school teacher who taught her and a few Black girls in the privacy of their homes how to sing opera. As time went by Collins went to college and graduated from Virginia State College where she taught music. Williams career in opera alowed her to participate with fund-raising events to aid in the freedom of jailed civil rights demonstrators and she sang at the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, D.C. She retired from opera in 1971 and kept teaching until 1997. Ironincally, she wanted me and others I share with to know about her real true life situations. You see, Camilla Williams died on January 29, 2012 at the age of 92.
