Walter Dyett

CTL-E-1183 · Person · unspecified

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Legendary music educator at DuSable High School whose program trained generations of jazz greats including Nat King Cole and Dorothy Donegan.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BCI-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BCI-001:b-dyett; source research type(s): person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

City of Chicago, Commission on Chicago Landmarks, DuSable High School preliminary landmark report (primary source)

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