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The Black Church
Fisk Minstrel Show
The spiritual arrangements of the 1870s, like the ones performed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, were quite different from the simple folk songs that had a single melody.
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1:49:49
Discover how the Black church expanded to address social inequality.
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1:50:09
Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African American religion.