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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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Lincoln University Bulletin (Summer 1978)

Dawson receiving his honorary doctoral degree at Lincoln University, May 7, 1978

From modest beginnings, Dawson garnered numerous distinctions as a composer, arranger, educator and musician. He received honorary doctorates from Ithaca College in New York, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, and Tuskegee University in Alabama, in addition to numerous citations and awards from the American Choral Directors Association, the University of Michigan, and the Maryland House of Delegates. Dawson was also listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World (archival materials).