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National Conservatory of Music of America

Addresses

 * 1905: East 17th Street, Manhattan

African American students
At Dvořák's prodding, enrollment of African American students at the conservatory grew to well over one hundred fifty among the 600-plus students enrolled.

Music schools that accepted African Americans in the 19th century

 * National Conservatory of Music of America – the American School of Opera was a division


 * Shepard Nathaniel Edmonds (1876– ), founder The Attucks Music Publishing Company in 1903 with money he earned from his song, "I'm Goin' to Live Anyhow, Till I Die"
 * Sidney Leonard Perrin (1886– ), songwriter and minstrel show performer
 * John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954)
 * Leader Hoffman, choral director
 * Henry Thacker Burleigh (1866–1949), Dvořák's assistant at the conservatory
 * Wendell Phillips Dabney (1865–1952)
 * James Tim Brymn (1881–1946)
 * Maurice Arnold Strothotte (1865–1937)
 * Paul Clarence Bolin (1869–1946), music educator and organist
 * Addie J. Lewis (1879–1901), studied piano, music teacher
 * Melville Charlton (1880–1973), organist, studied with Charles Otto Heinroth (1874–1963)
 * Alice Randolph Jackson, studied piano with Jeannette Thurber and Ignace Paderewski, became an acclaimed dancer
 * Will Marion Cook (1869–1944)


 * Washington Conservatory of Music


 * Mando Mozart National Conservatory of Music
 * (founded September 2, 1912, by John T. Douglass; extended by Albert F. Mando)


 * Oberlin Conservatory of Music


 * Wendell Phillips Dabney (1865–1952)
 * William Grant Still (1895–1978)
 * Garnet C. Wilkinson (1879–1969), M Street High School class of 1898, bachelor of arts from Oberlin 1902


 * New England Conservatory

Music schools that accepted African Americans in the early 20th century

 * New York


 * Music School Settlement for Colored
 * Martin-Smith School of Music

General stuff


Wayne Douglas Shirley (born 1936), from about 1965 to about 2000, worked at the Library of Congress. He began as a reference librarian, then music specialist in the Music Division. Shirley was also the founding editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music.