PROCTOR, HENRY HUGH

PROCTOR, HENRY HUGH. Music patron (8 December 1868 near Clifton, Tennessee; 12 May 1933 in New York (Brooklyn), New York). When pastor of the First Congregational Church in Atlanta, Georgia, he organized the Atlanta Colored Music Festival Association in July 1910 in order to bring to Atlanta the best musical talent of the race (quoted from concert programs). Although not a professional musician, he participated in musical activities during his college years at Fisk University in Nashville,...