![]() ![]() The group continues to perform and tour to this day, and the members are from the Fisk University student body. This original group stayed together until 1878 when it was disbanded, but was reformed with different performers over the years. The name of the group comes from a verse from Leviticus in the Bible about the year of jubilee when enslaved people were set free. The group was given the name "The Jubilee Singers" during the tour, and changed their repertoire from hymns, popular tunes of the day, and patriotic songs to the spirituals for which they became well known. In 1871, in order to raise money for the school, the White man who was the school's treasurer and music teacher formed a choral group of ten students to tour the northern United States. In 1866, the American Missionary Association (AMA) founded Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, to provide an education for freed enslaved Black people. ![]() ![]() From "The Jubilee Singers, and Their Campaign for Twenty-Thousand Dollars," by G. ![]()
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