lectured at college campuses, before professional societies, at the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, and at the Roundtables of the Tanglewood music festival. He received awards from the General Education Board and the Carnegie Foundation and in 1955 received an honorary doctorate from Wilberforce University. In April 1966, he lectured at the opening of the Center for the Arts in Lagos, Nigeria. At the time of his death on December 27, 1966, he left a completed manuscript, Stars in De Elements, which was published in 1995 as a special issue of the journal Black Sacred Music. References Eileen Southern (1997). The Music of Black Americans: A History. W. W. Norton & Company; 3rd edition. External links Library of Congress American male composers African-American musicians Musicians from Montgomery, Alabama People from Jacksonville, Florida 1900 births 1966 deaths Morehouse College alumni Wilberforce University alumni Roosevelt University alumni Fort Valley State University 20th-century American composers American expatriates in Nigeria Alabama State University faculty Place of death missing Spelman College faculty 20th-century American male musicians