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Source: Tennessee Tribune

1/17/19

Dr. Mildred Denby Green, Trailblazing Historian of Black Music in Memphis Dies

One of Memphis foremost historians of Black music, she taught at two of the city’s historically Black colleges for forty years.

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Dr. Mildred Denby Green, Trailblazing Historian of Black Music in Memphis Dies