Florence B. Price

Florence Price was the first female person of color (POC) to become known as a major composer of classical music in the USA. Her first composition was published at the age of 12. She studied organ and music theory at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and taught at Clark Atlanta University, one of the first universities for African Americans. She describes her life, which is characterized by intersectionality, as follows: “I have two handicaps […] I am a woman; and I have some Negro blood in my veins.” (Source: Melissa Tucker, “Florence Beatrice Smith Price: Breakthrough Composer (1887–1953)”, in Arkansas Business, vol. 35, no. 4, 2018, pp. A26–S27.)