1. Jennie Jackson was one of the original members of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African-American a cappella ensemble.
11 Facts About Jennie Jackson
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Jennie Jackson toured with the group from 1871 to 1877.
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Jennie Jackson was born in Kingston, Tennessee in about 1852.
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Jennie Jackson's grandfather was enslaved in the household of Andrew Jackson.
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Jennie Jackson's parents were enslaved, but she was raised in freedom from an early age, after her mother, a laundress, was freed.
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Jennie Jackson joined the Jubilee Singers when they formed in 1871.
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Jennie Jackson toured with the Fisk Jubilee Singers from 1871 to 1877, including concerts in Great Britain and Europe.
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Jennie Jackson left the group in 1877 when she fell ill with colitis.
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Jennie Jackson was at the center of a large 1873 painting of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, by Edmund Havel, commissioned by Queen Victoria to commemorate their performance for her.
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Jennie Jackson later sang with a reorganized version of the group and with fellow Fisk Jubilee Singer Maggie Porter Cole's group.
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Jennie Jackson was widowed in 1909, and she died at home in 1910, aged 58 years, in Cincinnati.