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Old Negro Song Enjoyed At Bluefield Chautauqua Week
The Jackson Jubilee singers closed the 1925 Bluefield Chautauqua season with old southern plantation style Negro spirituals under director Robert G. Jackson. Western University performers include Burgins Smith Smith Langston Lee and Raines. Local children opened with songs drills and recitations as Hugh Fuller offered De Lan Behin de moon.
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Bluefield
Jackson
Robert G. Jackson
Western University
Kansas City
Mond Burgins
William Smith
Anna Belle Smith
Dorothy Langston
Percy Lee
R. C. Raines
Cabin
Cottoni
Jackson Jubilee Singers
Hugh Fuller
de Lan
de Moon
Chautauqua Com
Yare
Gary
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Ironton