Real name: Frances Walker-Slocum

Classical Pianist & Professor. Born on March 6, 1924, in Washington. Died on June 9, 2018, in Oberlin, Ohio.

"Frances Walker-Slocum, who overcame childhood burns that left her arm impaired to become a pioneering classical pianist and the first black female tenured professor at Oberlin College and Conservatory, died on June 9 in Oberlin, Ohio. She was 94. . . . The younger sister of George Walker, who in 1996 became the first black classical composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music, Professor Walker-Slocum was not only an accomplished pianist but also a popular teacher, at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, the Third Street Settlement School in Manhattan, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, Rutgers University in New Jersey and Oberlin, where she rose to chairwoman of the piano department." (from her NYTimes obituary)