Fisk University Jubilee Singer.Born to a Mulatto mother and a slave father ,Georia attended Fisk University from 1868-1873 .Georgia travelled extensively in the United States as a singer and she performed with the Jubilee Singers when they appeared before Queen Victoria in England.The Queen's artist Haverhill painted an oil portrait of Georgia which now hangs in Jubilee Hall at Fisk University.In 1978, Georgia was posthumously awarded a bachelor's degree by Walter Leonard the president at the time of Fisk University.Georgia married Preston Taylor, minister of the Lee Avenue Christian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
Fisk University Jubilee Singer.Born to a Mulatto mother and a slave father ,Georia attended Fisk University from 1868-1873 .Georgia travelled extensively in the United States as a singer and she performed with the Jubilee Singers when they appeared before Queen Victoria in England.The Queen's artist Haverhill painted an oil portrait of Georgia which now hangs in Jubilee Hall at Fisk University.In 1978, Georgia was posthumously awarded a bachelor's degree by Walter Leonard the president at the time of Fisk University.Georgia married Preston Taylor, minister of the Lee Avenue Christian Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
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