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Eileen Southern papers
Eileen Jackson Southern was born February 19, 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Walter Wade and Lilla (Gibson) Jackson. Southern gave her first piano recital at the age of 12 and made her debut in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall at age 19, playing a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Musical College Symphony Orchestra. Although she studied the traditional white classical genius of