Editing David Baker (composer) (section)

===Early years===
After earning his master's degree from Indiana in 1954, he began teaching at [[Lincoln University (Missouri)|Lincoln University]] in [[Jefferson City, Missouri]], in 1955.<ref name=HTonline/> Lincoln, a historically black institution, had recently begun to admit white students to diversify its student body; however, Baker had to resign from his teaching position after he married Eugenia ("Jeanne") Marie Jones, a white opera singer, due to Missouri's anti-[[miscegenation]] laws.<ref name="Legacy"/> One of his students at Lincoln was the composer [[John Elwood Price]].<ref name="Biblio">{{cite web | author=Calvert Johnson| title=Organ Works by Composers from Africa and the African Diaspora: Bibliography | url=https://www.agohq.org/ | publisher=American Guild of Organists | year=2013 | access-date=January 16, 2016}}</ref> Baker returned to Indiana and taught private music lessons in Indianapolis and performed in local bands. He did not resume his academic teaching career until 1966.<ref name="De Lerma"/>