Fisk Jubilee Singers

Fisk Jubilee Singers On October 6, 1871, George White and nine black singers set out to raise funds for the nearly bankrupt Fisk University. The singers ranged in age from fifteen to twenty-five years old and were all ex-slaves or children of ex-slaves. One of the many black schools established after the Civil War to teach reading and writing to tens of thousands of emancipated slaves, the Fisk Free Colored School was founded in 1866 by the Congregational Church’s American Missionary…