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The Dissemination of the African American Spiritual in America and Europe: University Singing Movement 5


Table 8.3 Roster of the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Tours They Participated In
(Information is taken from Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers by Andrew Ward)
First Tour Second Tour Third Tour Voice and/or Instrument
October 1871 to March 1872 May 1872 to May 1874 January 1875 to July 1878
Hinton Alexander Tenor
(Phebe Anderson) Contralto
(Minnie Butler) Unknown
Maggie Carnes Soprano
Isaac Dickerson Isaac Dickerson Bass
Greene Evans (Greene Evans) Bass
Georgia Gordon Georgia Gordon Soprano
(Ella Hildridge) Soprano
Benjamin Holmes Benjamin Holmes Tenor
Jennie Jackson Jennie Jackson Soprano
Julia Jackson Julia Jackson Contralto
Mable Lewis Mable Lewis Contralto
Frederick Loudin Bass
(Patti Malone) Mezzo-Soprano
(Josephine Moore) Piano
(Henry Morgan) Tenor
(Gabriel Ousley) Bass
Maggie Porter Maggie Porter Maggie Porter Soprano
America Robinson Contralto
Thomas Rutling Thomas Rutling Thomas Rutling Tenor
Ella Sheppard Ella Sheppard Ella Sheppard Soprano, Piano, Organ, and Guitar
Minnie Tate Minnie Tate Contralto
Benjamin W. Thomas Bass
(Lucinda Vance) Contralto
Eliza Walker Contralto
Edmund Watkins Edmund Watkins Bass
(Georgia Wells) Performer
Note: Parentheses indicate performers who participated only a few months in a particular tour.

Down in the Valley

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We’ll run and never tire
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Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain
cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage,
need not be lived again.