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Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers
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Free.Location: LAT/LONG: 42.942805, -76.545771
Auburn Junior High School, 191 Franklin Street Auburn, NY 13021
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Join the National Park Service and the City of Auburn in welcoming the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers.
In honor of the 200th anniversary of Harriet Tubman's birth, we have invited this special group to perform for the Auburn community near her final resting place. The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers are dedicated to preserving the formal, concert-style "Negro Spiritual," including a selection of songs from Tubman's lifetime and familiar to her as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. The performance will include narration about the hidden meanings, history, and significance of these songs to enslaved Africans of the era--and their enduring significance to the struggle for racial justice.
The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers is a group of community singers in Ithaca, founded and directed by Baruch Whitehead, associate professor of music education at Ithaca College. The group is named after Dorothy Cotton, an Ithaca resident and civil rights pioneer who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when she served as education director for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Cotton passed away in 2018.
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Photo courtesy Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers
Photo courtesy Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers