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Article: The price of education.(Speaking of Education)(educational fund raising efforts of Jubilee Singers for Fisk University)(the price African Americans have paid for access to higher education)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- August 28, 2003
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I can't explain my eclectic reading habits, or my innate curiosity about all kinds of things. The combination of the two explains, perhaps, why I snatched Andrew Ward's book about the Fisk Jubilee Singers off a sale table at a small bookstore, and devoured it on a cross-country flight even as a pending project loomed ahead. I settled into Ward's book with procrastination on my mind and a smile on my face, and emerged with a renewed appreciation of all the things our ancestors paid for education.
The book, first published in 2000, is entitled Dark Midnight When I Rise: The Story of the Jubilee Singers Who Introduced the World to the Music of Black America (Farrar, ...