1. Famous African American Composer’s

2. William Grant Still Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi on May 11, 1895. He was the son of two teachers, Carrie Lena Fambro Still and William Grant Still. William took violin lessons and showed a great interest in music.

3. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was born in London,England on August 15,1875 his mother was Alice Hare and his father was Daniel Peter Taylor who was studying at King’s collage, London.

4. Scott Joplin Scott Joplin, the "King of Ragtime" music, was born near Linden, Texas on November 24, 1868. He moved with his family to Texarkana at the age of about seven. After suffering deteriorating health due to syphilis that he contracted some years earlier, Joplin died on April 1, 1917 in Manhattan State Hospital.

5. THOMAS WALLER Thomas "Fats" Waller is one of the more important of the modern pianist- composers. Born in New York on May 21, 1904, the son of a minister. Shortly after, the lure of the stage beckoned him to the interesting field of the Harlem cabaret, and he remained in that gay section of the city until 1924, occasionally doubling as a theatre organist and as a. piano-roll artist for the Q-R-S Company.

6. Tom Turpin Tom Turpin was born in 1873 in Savannah, Georgia, the second son of John and Lulu Turpin. Honest John" Turpin was politically active during Reconstruction (a street in Savannah was named after the Turpin Family), and he was proud of the fact that he never worked for another man after Emancipation.

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