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Jubilee Hall
Victorian Gothic hall raised by formerly enslaved student singers who toured the world to fund it.
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This guide to Jubilee Hall at Fisk University in Nashville follows the gamble treasurer George White made in eighteen seventy-one, sending nine formerly enslaved students on a fundraising tour a broke, five-year-old college could barely afford. You'll hear how the tour nearly died twice, in Cincinnati and Columbus, and what White changed to keep it going. Best heard looking up at the steep gothic roofline from the lawn below.
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