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Motown’s Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut

  • Written by Margena A. Christian, Emeritus professor, University of Illinois Chicago
imageSylvia Moy was a trailblazing Motown songwriter. L. Busacca/WireImage for Songwriter's Hall of Fame

During the 1960s, in a country divided by racial strife, the music of Berry Gordy Jr.’s Motown Records helped bring people together.

Motown was noted for star performers like Mary Wells, The Miracles, The Supremes, The Temptations, Martha...

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