William Dawson was a composer, choir director and professor. He is widely known for his arrangements of traditional African-American spirituals which have been published in the United States. William Levi Dawson was born in Anniston, Alabama, and ran away from home at the age of 13 to attend Tuskegee Institute, where he studied piano and composition, and […]

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