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Willis Patterson Shares Music of Black American Composers During Black History Month, February 1990

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Willis Patterson...gives Bach a rest

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Ann Arbor News, February 10, 1990

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Black History Month

Black American Musicians

Black American Singers

Willis Charles Patterson

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