Society for the Preservation of Spirituals
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Sources
found: DLC copy concert program, January 19, 1935(The Society for the Preservation of Spirituals of Charleston, South Carolina singing for the Washington Committee of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Foundation)
found: LC database, July 10, 2013(hdg.: Society for the Preservation of Spirituals. [from old catalog])
found: South Carolina Historical Society website, accessed via Google, July 10, 2013Society for the Preservation of Spirituals records, 1922- (The Society for the Preservation of Spirituals was organized in Charleston, South Carolina on April 9, 1923 for the purpose of preserving the religious folk songs of slaves and to use revenues raised to provide assistance to African-Americans. Their major activity was to perform concerts of spirituals sung in Gullah)
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Change Notes
2013-07-10: new
2013-07-29: revised
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