AAUW Macon Branch is holding a Book and Author Lunch April 10 at 1:00 p.m at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 753 College Street, Macon, GA 31207. The proceeds from the event fund scholarships for non-traditional students. Tickets are $10.00.
This year’s book is Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus: The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871–1878, by Dr. Toni Anderson. Dr. Anderson is professor of Voice and Chair of the Music Department at LaGrange College, GA. She didn’t know much about the Fisk Jubilee Singers until she started teaching at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, a historically black institution
“Being on the music faculty, of course the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers came up, and I was intrigued,” she said. She was so intrigued that she made the group the topic of her doctoral dissertation at Georgia State University. And now, 15 years later, she published the book.
The book tells the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Between 1871 and 1878, the Jubilee Singers presented concerts featuring the Negro spirituals that won the applause and admiration of the Western world. The rise and renown of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers form one of the most celebrated stories of post-Civil War America.
If you are interested in attending, call Joyce Hudson, Co-President and Treasurer at 478–745-8637. Joy Bernard can also tell you if there will be space. Call her at 478–714-1000. The $40 book will be available for sale for the special price of $25 at the luncheon.