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Give Me Wings: How a Choir of Former Slaves Took on the World
By LOWINGER, Kathy
- ISBN
- 9781554517473
- Publisher
- Annick
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School Library Journal
Starred Review on August 1, 2015 | Middle To High Schoool
Gr 7 Up—Readers learn the story of Ella Sheppard and the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University. Born a slave, Sheppard survived the Civil War and eventually enrolled in Fisk Free Colored School (now Fisk University) in Nashville, TN. However, this underfunded school for newly freed blacks floundered within a few years. In order to raise money, George White, Fisk's treasurer and music teacher, organized a choir with Ella Sheppard as his assistant and took them ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
Lowinger relates the true story of how Ella Sheppard and the Jubilee Singers used African American spiritual music to save Fisk Universit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
