Thomas in the March on Washington. She is also a member of Zeta Phi Beta sorority. In the post World War II era her life changed drastically when her husband, mother and brother died all within five years of each other. Her grief- and the decline of professional demands-gave Lillian the chance to grow closer with her son, his wife and her two grandchildren. Although she was no longer singing on grand opera stages, Evanti became involved in the music life within the D.C community and brought her love and passion to the "Evanti Chorale". Lillian's prologue to her unpublished autobiography can be found at the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago. Family She married Roy W. Tibbs, a former director of the Coleridge-Taylor Society, a Washington D. C. African-American chorus founded in honor of the composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor. They lived at 1910 Vermont Avenue in the Shaw Neighborhood of Northwest, Washington, D.C., which is now known as the Evans-Tibbs House and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. They had a grandson, Thurlow E. Tibbs, Jr, born 1952. References Sources Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans: A History. W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition. Lillian Evanti photographs and other material at Columbia College, Chicago Madame Lillian Evanti seated on train in Europe. Smith, Eric Ledell. "Lillian Evanti: Washington's African-American Diva". Washington History. 11 (Spring/Summer 1999): 24-43, accessed March 6, 2017. 1890 births 1967 deaths 20th-century African-American women singers 20th-century American women opera singers African-American women opera singers Howard University alumni American operatic sopranos People from Shaw (Washington, D.C.) Singers from Washington, D.C.