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African American audiences. She organized opera guilds in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Newark, and New York. She trained hundreds of African American youth to sing opera.
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After graduating, Mary
Lucinda Cardwell came back to Homestead and in 1925 she started the
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on June 23, 1925 with a teacher's diploma. She continued her studies at the
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In 1961, Dawson was appointed to the National Music Committee by President
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Dawson died in 1962 in Washington, D.C. of a heart attack.
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