William Levi Dawson was a composer, choir director, and professor specializing in black religious folk music. Dawson was born on September 26, 1899, in Anniston, Alabama to Eliza Starkey and George Dawson, the first of their seven children. His father, a former slave, was an illiterate day laborer. He attended the Horner Institute of Fine […]
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