Today in history
Subtitle: January 9
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Politics and government; African American universities and colleges; History; African American musicians; Biography; United States. Constitutional Convention (1787); United States; Fisk University; Jubilee Singers
Other titles: January 9
Description: Presents information on Connecticut's ratification of the Constitution on January 9, 1788. Also presents information on the Fisk School, a forerunner of Fisk University, where classes convened for the first time on January 9, 1866 in Nashville, Tennessee. Fisk is one of several historically Black colleges. Also provides information on the Fisk Jubilee Singers, known for singing traditional African-American sacred music.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Connecticut ratifies the Constitution; title: The Fisk School.