MUSI 3406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fisk Jubilee Singers, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Robert Nathaniel Dett
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A charge to keep i have (black meter hymn) A long term movement of african americans from the south to the urban north, transforming. Chicago and other north cities between 1916 and 1970. Know the factors that led to the great migration. The great migration north vs. south: greatest numbers coming from mississippi, alabama, georgia and south carolina, they streamed to chicago, detroit, cleveland, philadelphia and elsewhere, chicago attracted slightly more than half a million of the approx. Americans who left the south during these decades. The lord helps those who help themselves: missionary efforts helped finance and build new churches and schools, facilitated a remarkable increase in southern black literacy from 5% in 1870 to approx. The black church following emancipation: emancipation promised a meeting between two african american religious traditions that had moved far apart in terms of both theology and ritual, most african americans chose to join the independent black denominations.
