Frances Walker-Slocum

Frances Walker-Slocum (March 6, 1924 - June 9, 2018) was an American educator, pianist, and organist, and the first tenured African-American female professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the first conservatory in the United States to admit black students.

Walker-Slocum was the younger sister of composer George Walker, the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

In 1950, Walker-Slocum was married to Henry Chester Slocum Jr., a fellow Oberlin alumnus in New York City. She had one son, George Jeffrey Slocum. She had one granddaughter through George Jeffrey Slocum, Amber Poirier-Slocum. She had two great grandchildren before her death, one granddaughter and one grandson. Provided by Wikipedia