*Temple University authentication only.
Try searching these databases for biographical information on Black composers.
Black Studies Center - contains content previously found at African American Biographical Database, including Black Biographical Dictionaries 1790-1950, and Black Biography 1790-1950.
American National Biography is a standard reference work for information about the lives of significant persons in American history.
Biography Resource Center (Biography in Context) provides biographies of hundreds of thousands of men and women from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. The entries are drawn from a long list of standard biographical reference works including:
Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians by 
Black Classical Musicians and Composers, 1500-2000 by 
Black Music and Musicians in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and the New Harvard Dictionary of Music by 
