Jubilee singers photograph [graphic]; n.d.

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Jubilee singers photograph [graphic]; n.d.

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1 photo.: albumin; 8 x 10.5cm.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Jubilee Singers (Fisk University)

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The Fisk Jubilee Singers originated with nine students, Isaac Dickerson, Maggie Porter, Minnie Tate, Jennie Jackson, Benjamin Holmes, Thomas Rutling, Eliza Walker, Green Evans, and Ella Sheppard, who set out on a concert tour of the North on 6 Oct. 1871 to save the financially ailing Fisk University; idea to form the group was conceived by George L. White, Fisk University's white treasurer; because the University disapproved of the idea, White had to borrow money for the tour; White gave the gro...