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Community and organization
Stillwater Colored Band is treated as a school, youth, cadet, scout, agency, or honor-band subject under the approved educational collection. Historical membership is described only to the level the sources establish.
Reading the evidence
The evidence for Stillwater Colored Band does not establish uninterrupted continuity across every named period, reorganization, alias, or possible successor. The packet therefore treats Documented 1921 as the supported evidence span rather than a complete institutional chronology.
Questions for further research
For Stillwater Colored Band: establish exact founding, reorganization, hiatus and ending dates; director succession; membership model; major activities; aliases or successors; and image provenance where not already documented.
Dated evidence in this record
- 1920
The Stillwater History Museum states that by 1920 the Stillwater Colored Band was associated with Washington School and directed by Joseph Elsberry, who served as Superintendent of Colored Schools.
- 1920
The museum page states that the Stillwater Colored Band began with ten students and that Mrs. Elsberry had music and piano knowledge while band work was new to her.
- 1921
The Stillwater History Museum states that the Stillwater Colored Band marched in at least two parades, in March and July 1921.