Alice Carter Simmons

She was the founding secretary of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM), and was head of the instrumental music program at Tuskegee Institute beginning in 1916; she also taught at Fisk University.

[2] In 1910, Simmons played the first-night concert to open the Morton Theatre in Athens, Georgia.

[3][14] She accompanied singer Cleota Collins and violinists Clarence Cameron White and H. Harrison Ferrell in concerts at Tuskegee.

[24][25] In her last years, she was director of Club Caroline, a residence for Black working women in New York City.

[26] Alice Carter Simmons died from complications after surgery in 1943, aged 60 years, at a hospital in New York City.

Twelve African-American adults, seven women and five men, posed outdoors for a group photograph, one row standing, one row seated.
The newly-elected officers of the National Association of Negro Musicians in 1925; standing, from left, Camille Nickerson , Henry Grant, Lillian Lemon, J. Wesley Jones, Lillian Carpenter, Adelaide Herriot; seated, from left, Mildred Bryant Jones , Carl Rossini Diton , Alice Carter Simmons, Robert Nathaniel Dett , Martha Broadus Anderson , and Clarence Cameron White .