Florence Smith was born to James H. Smith and Florence Gulliver Smith on April 9, 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her father was a dentist in Little Rock and her mother taught piano and and worked as a schoolteacher and businesswoman. She was the first African American female composer to have a symphonic composition performed by a major American symphony orchestra. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra performed her "Symphony in E Minor" on June 15, 1933, under the direction of Frederick Stock. The work was later performed at the Chicago World's Fair as part of the Century of Progress Exhibition. Click on the above website link above to learn the details about Florence Smith Price.
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