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British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a standout both for his talent, and also because he was a Black artist who moved in almost entirely white circles. His most famous work is a cantata he composed in his early 20s. Research: “Obituary.” British Medical Journal. October 22, 1904. Accessed online: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2355705/pdf/brmedj08192-0072c.pdf Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor". Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Coleridge-Taylor Green, Jeffrey. “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: The Early Years.” Black Music Research Journal, vol. 21, no. 2, 2001, pp. 133–58. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3181600 Predota, Georg. “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Jessie Sarah Fleetwood Walmisley ‘Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen.’” Interlude. August 15, 2020. https://interlude.hk/samuel-coleridge-taylor-and-jessie-sarah-fleetwood-walmisley-nobody-knows-the-trouble-ive-seen/ Kuryla, Peter. "Pan-Africanism". Encyclopedia Britannica , 27 Jan. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pan-Africanism Wariboko, Waibinte E. “I REALLY CANNOT MAKE AFRICA MY HOME: WEST INDIAN MISSIONARIES AS ‘OUTSIDERS’ IN THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY C I V I L I Z I N G M I S S I O N T O S O U T H E R N N I G E R I A, 1898–1925.” Journal of African History. 45/2004. Cambridge University Press. Accessed online: https://openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu/african-history/wp-content/uploads/sites/208/2020/03/Wariboko-I-Really-Cannot-make-Africa-my-Home.pdf “A Strange Conference.” Boston Evening Transcript. August 8, 1900. https://www.newspapers.com/image/735394695/?terms=First%20Pan-African%20Conference&match=1 “The Pan-African Movement.” American Historical Association. https://www.historians.org/teaching-and-learning/teaching-resources-for-historians/teaching-and-learning-in-the-digital-age/through-the-lens-of-history-biafra-nigeria-the-west-and-the-world/the-colonial-and-pre-colonial-eras-in-nigeria/the-pan-african-movement#:~:text=Pan%2DAfricanism%20was%20the%20attempt,the%20world%20of%20African%20colonies Rognoni, Gabriele and Anna Maria Barry. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and the Musical Fight for Civil Rights.” Royal College of Music and Google Arts and Culture. https://artsandculture.google.com/story/9gXhtwiLW6SGIw Civil Rights Longfellow Chorus. “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and His Music in America, 1900-1912.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HebDy-sLdCs&t=2s Coleridge-Taylor, Avril. “The Heritage of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.” Dobson. 1979. “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1875-1912.” Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200038837/ Phillips, Mike. “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912).” The British Library Board. https://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/blackeuro/pdf/coleridge.pdf “New Music.” Birmingham Daily Gazette. Nov. 22, 1898. https://www.newspapers.com/image/821403324/?terms=%22Hiawatha%27s%20Wedding%20Feast%22&match=1 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.