John Thomas Douglass
... that John Thomas Douglass's Virginia's Ball, which premiered in 1868, is generally regarded as the first opera written by a black composer?
... that <b id="mwBy8"><a href="./John_Thomas_Douglass" id="mwBzA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Thomas Douglass">John Thomas Douglass</a></b><span about="#mwt87" class="nowrap" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"`s","href":"./Template:`s"},"params":{},"i":0}}]}' id="mwBzE" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><span typeof="mw:Entity">'</span>s</span> <i id="mwBzI">Virginia's Ball</i>, which premiered in 1868, is generally regarded as the first <a href="./Opera" id="mwBzM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Opera">opera</a> written by a black composer?