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Will Henry Bennett (né Henry William Benjamin Bennett, Jr.; born 6 September 1907 Charleston, South Carolina – died 20 March 1980 Houston, Texas) was an American music educator at the collegiate level widely known as the director of the Prairie View Co-eds, an all-female collegiate swing band that flourished regionally and nationally in the 1940s.^[1]

Career

After serving as director of music at Prairie View A&M College, Bennett, around 1949, became director of bands at Liberty Training School, in Liberty, Texas.

Lyman Bennett

Lyman Bennett, was a shirt manufacturer in Troy, New York. (1801 Rindge, New Hampshire – 9 February 9 Troy, New York. In 1877, he contributed $5,000 to Syracuse University. When he founded Bennett College, it was known as Freedman's Academy.

Notes and references

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References

^ "The Prairie View Co-Eds: Black College Women Musicians in Class and on the Road during World War II," by Sherrie Tucker, Black Music Research Journal, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago and University of Illinois Press, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring, 1999, pps. 93–126 (accessible via JSTOR at www.jstor.org/stable/779276)

[Black-Music-Research-Journal_1999_Spr-1] "The Prairie View Co-Eds: Black College Women Musicians in Class and on the Road during World War II," by Sherrie Tucker, Black Music Research Journal, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago and University of Illinois Press, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring, 1999, pps. 93–126 (accessible via JSTOR at www.jstor.org/stable/779276)

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