Doris Evans McGinty (February 8, 1925 – April 5, 2005)[1][2] was a professor in the Department of Music at Howard University from 1947 until 1991.
[3] McGinty was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Dunbar Senior High School in 1941.
[2] She earned a bachelor's degree in music education at Howard University in 1945, and a B.A.
McGinty went on to attend Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was the only African American in her class, obtaining a master of arts degree in one year, before returning in 1947 to teach at Howard.
[2] She subsequently went on a Fulbright fellowship to study at Oxford University, where in 1953 she became the first American to receive a doctorate of musicology.