National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses

National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses Formed on August 17, 1932, the Gospel Choral Union at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois, was the first of a series of burgeoning gospel music unions developing around the country. Thomas Andrew Dorsey was elected the union’s first president. As he traveled throughout the United States and gospel music began to spread in popularity, the need to organize emergent unions into a single organization became apparent. The following year, on…