Hattie Bishop Speed (February 12, 1858 – August 8, 1942) was a pianist, humanist, and philanthropist who championed music and the arts in Louisville, Kentucky.
[1] Upon returning to Louisville, Ms. Bishop resumed her life as a piano teacher and performer.
After visiting the Vedders at their homes in Rome and on the island of Capri, Hattie came to know American painters, Charles Caryl Coleman and George Randolph Barse.
was also a fervent advocate of Louisville's American Red Cross Hospital, which had been founded by African-American physicians and operating the only nurse training program in Kentucky open to black women.
Hattie Bishop married prominent Louisville businessman, James Breckinridge Speed, in 1906.