Lulu Vere Childers (February 28, 1870 – March 6, 1946) was an African-American music educator. Born in

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, she graduated from the

Oberlin Conservatory The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory in Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in the United States. It is one of t ...

in 1896, and in 1905 joined the faculty of Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she is accredited with initiating the Conservatory of Music in 1913 and School of Music in 1918. Childers ran the Howard University Choral Society; over the years they performed works such as

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's '' Messiah'' in 1919. She was musical director of the university from 1905 until 1942. She was a friend of singer Marian Anderson. She died in 1946 in Howell, Michigan. Lulu Vere Childers Hall, named in her honor, is located in the Division of Fine Arts building at Howard University.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Childers, Lulu African-American music educators American music educators American women music educators 1870 births 1946 deaths Oberlin Conservatory of Music alumni Howard University faculty People from Grant County, Kentucky Kentucky women in education American women academics 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women