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7/22/2009
This small framed copy of the wall sized portrait of the Fisk Jubilee Singers commissioned by Queen Victoria was given to me by my mother-in-law Florence. The Jubilee Singers are the reason Nashville is called Music City. Singing through America and Europe, in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the Jubilee singers raised much of the money needed to establish and sustain Fisk University, the Princeton of black America.