Template:Did you know nominations/Jennie Jackson
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:17, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
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Jennie Jackson[edit]
Jennie Jackson
- ... that Jennie Jackson (pictured), an original member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers,
sangperformed with the ensemble before US President Ulysses S. Grant, Mark Twain, and Queen Victoria? Source: "they were invited to the White House to sing for President Grant. In England their triumphs were repeated on a larger scale….an immediate result of this concert was an invitation from the Duke and Duchess of Argyll to sing at Argyll Lodge where, to their great surprise and pleasure, they learned that Queen Victoria would be present" (The Preservation of the American Negro Folk Song); "Writing on behalf of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Mark Twain took his task 'cheerfully.' 'I would walk seven miles to hear them sing again,' he declared in an 1873 letter" (“The Tenor of Belonging: The Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Popular Culture of Postbellum Citizenship)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hilda Ranscombe
- Comment: Please run in February – Black History Month
Created by Penny Richards (talk). Nominated by Yoninah (talk) at 11:54, 15 February 2019 (UTC).
Interesting woman, on good sources, offline source accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. You may want to expand the lead a bit, and perhaps say something about what "other music" means. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:06, 15 February 2019 (UTC)- I suggest you say "performed" instead of "sang" in the hook, in order to avoid "Singers, sang". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:07, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
