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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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Press release from the Creative Artists Workshop (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1981

News release from the Creative Artists Workshop (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1981

Dawson died at the age of 90 on May 2, 1990 in Montgomery, Alabama, but his legacy lives on through his music and scholarship. In 1981, James G. Spady and the Creative Artists’ Workshop in Philadelphia, Pa, conducted a tribute to Dawson. The essays from this event were published by the Workshop as “William L. Dawson: A Umum Tribute and A Marvelous Journey.”