found: Aunt Sara's wooden god, 1996:t.p. (Mercedes Gilbert)
found: LC data base 06-29-96(hdg.: Gilbert, Mercedes)
found: Paul Robeson [VR] c2007:label (Mercedes Gilbert)
found: Internet movie database, July 14, 2009(Meredes Gilbert; b. 26 July 1894, Jacksonville; d. 1 Mar. 1952, New York; actress)
found: Biog. resource center (Notable Black Amer. women), Aug. 31, 2009(Mercedes Gilbert; b. 1889; d. 1952; actress, poet, songwriter, playwright, novelist)
found: Amer. nat. biog., Aug. 31, 2009(Gilbert, Mercedes; b. 1889, Jacksonville, Fla.; actress and writer; d. Mar. 1, 1952, Jamaica, New York)
found: African American National Biography, accessed January 30, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Gilbert, Mercedes; poet, songwriter, stage / screen actor, lecturer, dramatist, fiction writer; born in 1889 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States; completed the Brewster Hospital Nurses Training School; postgraduate training at Lincoln Hospital; managed an eight-piece jazz band and a blues singer, composing the popular, The Decatur Street Blues and Got the World in a Jug (1920's); first acted in Broadway comedy, The Lace Petticoat, followed by Lost, Bomboola, Play Genius, Play, Malinda, How Come Lawd?, The Searching Windm and Carib Song; notable performances include all-black productions of Lysistrata and Tobacco Road; member of the Olympic Committee for the 11th Olympiad (1936); published one sigle novel,Aunt Sara's Wooden God (1938); wrote three plays, Environment, In Greener Pastures, and Ma Johnson's Harlem Rooming House; died 01 March 1952 in Jamaica, New York, United States)