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 In 1971, Eileen Southern, the first African-American woman tenured in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, published her landmark monograph: The Music of Black Americans (currently in its third edition). We are faculty, graduate students and library staff at Harvard who see in the approaching golden anniversary of Professor Southern's accomplishment an opportunity to celebrate and reflect upon her work.

   ![Photographic portrait of Professor Eileen Southern](/sites/g/files/omnuum9011/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/musicofblackamericans/files/smiling_southern.jpg?itok=GQTKfMtL)