Fisk Jubilee
Singers,
c. 1875.
(Special Collections, Franklin Library, Fisk University, )
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Fisk University, was founded in 1866 as a liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee.
Of the nine original Jubilee Singers, seven were born slaves.
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Between 1871 and 1880, the Fisk Jubilee Singers staged a series of fund-raising concerts that introduced traditional black spirituals to audiences in the Northern United States, England, and Europe; their phenomenal success helped keep the college open.
