The Jubilee Singers depart from Nashville for their ... Pinckney B.S. Pinchback of Louisiana becomes the first African American state governor. Approximately 2,000 African Americans held public ...

When the Fisk Jubilee Singers first performed in the late 1800s ... the past and reveal the emotions and strong faith of the African American slave. The following songs were recorded for ...

Describing the African-American influence on American music in all of its glory an d variety is an intimidating—if not impossible—task. African American influences are so fundamental to American music ...

Guitar legend T-Bone Walker, top, pioneered the jump blues style of the 1940s, and BB King, above, headed the blues revival in the 1960s Chattanooga-born Bessie Smith, nicknamed the Empress of the ...

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...