G. Grant Williams

G. Grant Williams was the city editor and manager of the Philadelphia Tribune, which was one of Philadelphia's most successful black promoters of cultural events, helping to give black performers and cultural leaders opportunities to appear in Philadelphia. During the next few years, for example, Williams would sell out the Academy of Music six times to black performers, often weeks in advance. Because of Williams enterprise, audiences heard, for example, W.E.B. DuBois. May 1915 he ran an advertisement titled, "Marian Anderson: A Worthy Cause." He was promoting a benefit concert "to assist in her musical education." [Info and Photo: Colored American Magazine, 1904]

George Grant Williams, born in Peekskill, New York, April 3, 1868. Son of John and Anna Eliza (Green) Williams; married Theresa A. de Courlander, of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on June 1, 1911.

He was also the proprietor of G. Grant Williams Advertising Agency; a promoter and manager of concerts, recitals and musical entertainments.

He died September 1922, in Windsor, Connecticut at the age of 54.

"Who's who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent," Volume One, (1915). Edited by Frank Lincoln Mather