The Dixie Sweethearts

{{short description|American jazz band}}

The Dixie Sweethearts were an all-women jazz group in the 1930s.{{cite book |title=Women and music in America since 1900 |date=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=1573563080 |page=[https://archive.org/details/womenmusicinamer0000unse/page/n66 2002] |url=https://archive.org/details/womenmusicinamer0000unse |url-access=registration |accessdate=21 August 2019}} Members of the group have later played with other similar acts like the Harlem Playgirls and the Darlings of Rhythm with individual members continuing to perform through the 1940s.{{cite book |last1=McGee |first1=Kristin A. |title=Some Liked It Hot: Jazz Women in Film and Television, 1928-1959 |date=2009 |publisher=Wesleyan University Press |isbn=978-0819569677 |page=56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vmsbhYc8-XEC&pg=PA56}} The group was led by frontwomen Marjorie Ross and Madge Fontaine.{{cite book |last1=Handy |first1=D. Antoinette |title=Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras |date=1998 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0810834197 |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-cJHuaH5M5oC&pg=PA44 |accessdate=21 August 2019}} Other members included Tiny Davis, Marjorie Pettiford, Violet Burnside, Henrietta Fontaine, who joined the spin-off group Darlings of Rhythm in the 1940s.