What do the Southern Stars, the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet, and the Mills Brothers have in common? All three quartets were created in neighborhood barbershops. Yet, these aren’t the only famous Black artists to come out of neighborhood quartets. Jelly Roll Morton, W.C. Handy, and Louis Armstrong also all started their musical careers in recreational quartets. What this illustrates is just how meaningful the barbershop quartet tradition was to the advancement of Black artists in a time of racial segregation. Yet, without research, one wouldn’t know how important the barbershop quartet tradition was to African-Americans as the original creators of the barbershop quartet (African-Americans) have been erased from the narrative.