Ernestine Anderson graduated high school.
Anderson tells of her early life in the 1998 book The Jazz Scene:"My parents used to play blues records all the time," Ernestine Anderson told me
 == Awards and honors ==Ernestine Anderson was featured in an article in Time magazine, August 4, 1958: "the voice belongs to Negro Singer Ernestine Anderson, at 29 perhaps the best-kept jazz secret in the land" after her first album release

