Tag: Fisk University

• Jubilee Singers And Their Biggest Fan

  “There were many times, when we didn’t have place to sleep or anything to eat. Mr. White went out and brought us some sandwiches and tried to find some place to put us up.” Other times while the singers would wait in the railway station, White “and some other man of the troupe waded through sleet or snow or rain from hotel to hotel seeking shelter for us”

  Adrienne Morris

  January 24, 2017

  inspirational, United States History

  Civil War, family saga, Fisk University, freedmen, George L. White, Jubilee Singers, slavery

• A Purpose and a Prayer–Freed Slaves Who Saved a School

  Taking every penny from the school treasury  to pay for their traveling expenses the Fisk Jubilee Singers set out on a mission to ensure the continuance of the school they dearly loved. Only a few months after the end of the Civil War John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. […]

  Adrienne Morris

  October 28, 2014

  Men, United States History, Women

  Bravery, Christianity, Civil War, faith, Fisk University, heroes, Jubilee Singers, Life, missionaries, Music They Listened To (in my novels), Swing Low Sweet Chariot