A. Jack Thomas
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A. Jack Thomas was a Baltimore-area conductor, hired to work with the city's municipal music performance groups. He had also been one of the first African American bandleaders in the Army, and was director of the music department at Morgan College. He also founded the Aeolian Institute for higher music education in Baltimore.
Thomas later became the first African American to conduct the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
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- Schaaf, Elizabeth. The Storm Is Passing Over. Peabody Institute. Retrieved on March 23, 2008.
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