A. C. Harris Bilbrew (March 12, 1891 – June 4, 1972) was an American poet, musician, composer, playwright, clubwoman, and radio personality known as Madame A. C.

[9] Bilbrew was active in many ways with performing arts in the African-American community of South Los Angeles.

[25] In 1955, her choral composition, "The Death of Emmett Till", was performed by Scatman Crothers and the Ramparts and released as a single, with a percentage of the royalties benefiting the NAACP.

[26][27] "I feel strongly that this American folk song will live on and serve a purpose," Bilbrew commented at the time.

She was the musical arranger and director for the choir that appeared as cotton pickers singing spirituals in the Stepin Fetchit film Hearts in Dixie (1929), considered one of the first talking pictures with an all-black cast.

In 1958, she was named director of a new Republican campaign office opened in South Los Angeles.

"[35] In 1960, she attended the International Women's Day Jubilee in Copenhagen, part of the 22-member delegation from the United States.

[38] In 1963, she founded the Opportunity Workshop, a community arts, education, and empowerment program in south Los Angeles.