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How the Fisk Jubilee Singers became an American musical institution

12:32 pm UTC Feb. 19, 2021
The famed Jubilee Singers of Fisk University rehearse May 10, 1952, for an upcoming concert.
Photo: Robert C. Holt Jr., The Tennessean, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Steal away, steal away home, I hain t got long to stay here.”
In the mid-19th century, you’d hear those words echoing across the fields of Oklahoma, as Wallace Willis and other slaves sang while they worked in the state’s Indian Territory. ....

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How the Fisk Jubilee Singers became an American musical institution

The creation, rise and endurance of the Fisk Jubilee Singers many of them former slaves is a true American triumph. ....

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How the Fisk Jubilee Singers became an American musical institution

The creation, rise and endurance of the Fisk Jubilee Singers many of them former slaves is a true American triumph. ....

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