Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory

Documents the founding and acclaim of the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in the 1870's. Combines interviews with musicologists and historians, archival photographs and drawings, dramatizations of their performances, and diary entries of the singers themselves. Presents the social history of the period after the Emancipation Declaration by discussing the role their performances had in combating racism, segregation, and prejudice.

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  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, description, catalog record