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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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Photograph of William Levi Dawson, Governor George Wallace and others at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame reception, 6 December 1984

Dawson’s induction to Alabama Hall of Fame, 1987

Dawson received nominations for induction into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in the categories of Music and Non-performing achievement in 1975 and 1984, respectively. In 1989, Dawson became a recipient of the Lifework Award for Non-performing Achievement, awarded by the state of Alabama. He joined other notable musical supporters and Hall of Fame inductees, Buddy Killen (Tree International) and Sam Phillips (Sun Records).