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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 the Wayne State Glee Club, Detroit, Michigan, 14 March 1970

Wayne State Glee Club, 1970

The Wayne State University Men’s Glee Club forged a longstanding relationship with Dawson. When it celebrated its anniversary in 1995, the three Wayne State choirs sang several of Dawson’s arrangements.