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Later years

  • Program for the All-Eastern Division Gala Festival Concert, 1961.
  • Speech by Dawson to the American Choral Directors Convention.
  • Dawson, Ambassador Lodge, and others, Loyola, Spain [1956]
  • Flyer of Tuskegee crusade for citizenship, 1957
  • WC Handy, "Memphis Blues" from Dawson’s collection
  • Postcard advertising the Crescent Youth Symphony performance of the Negro Folk Symphony in 1975.
  • Honorary doctorate, Ithaca College, 1982
  • Dawson’s induction to Alabama Hall of Fame, 1987
  • Wayne State Glee Club, 1970
  • Dawson receiving his honorary doctoral degree at Lincoln University, May 7, 1978
  • News release from the Creative Artists Workshop (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1981
  • Dawson's compositions continue to be performed both nationally and internationally.
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Speech by William Levi Dawson for the American Choral Directors convention, undated

Speech by Dawson to the American Choral Directors Convention.

Dawson also provided many guest lectures and presentations about his techniques of choral directing, including for the Southern Division Music Educators National Conference.