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In the early 1990s, Epps was named Harvard’s race coordinator after racial tensions mounted when the Black Student Association invited controversial City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries to hear his allegations that Jews were complicit in the African slave trade.
The board of the Black Students Association (BSA) honored Epps after his death in a message to the organization’s e-mail list, calling him “a great man” and noted that he was going to be honored in October at the Black Alumni...
On several occasions in the 1960s, while Epps was touring with the Harvard Glee Club, the group traveled to perform in locales where blacks were unwelcome. On one occasion in 1965, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Elliot Forbes ’40 reportedly received bomb threats because of plans for...
“There wasn’t any form of music he didn’t like,” Valerie Epps recalled of her husband, who was also a trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Epps was raised in Louisiana and graduated from Talladega College in Alabama before matriculating at the Divinity School. He became a teaching fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1961 and was appointed assistant dean of the College in 1964.