Harry Lawrence Freeman was a high-acclaimed composer, performer, and music critic during the Harlem Renaisance. Freeman was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1869. As a young child, he studied piano and began performing as a church organizt around twelve years old. By 1891, Freeman was living in Denver, Ohio where he formed an all-black amateur […]

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