... Music, Monographs and Bibliographies in American Music 15 (Missoula, MT: CMS, 1995) 64. 4 In 1873, The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of Black students from Fisk University in Nashville, began concert tours of this country and Europe in order to raise money in order to pay off the mortgage of their classroom building. Even after that task was accomplished, the group continued ... ...

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... , Elijah Muhammad. He changed his last name to "X," a custom among Nation of Islam followers who considered their family names to have originated from white slaveholders. Malcolm X was sent on speaking tours around the country and soon became the most effective speaker and organiser for the Nation of Islam. He founded many new mosques and greatly increased the movement's membership. In 1961 ... ...

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