[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 183 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 183

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United 
 States Postal Service should issue a postage stamp commemorating the 
                         Fisk Jubilee Singers.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 2007

 Mr. Hastings of Florida (for himself, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Mr. Scott 
   of Virginia, Ms. Kilpatrick, Mr. Lincoln Davis of Tennessee, Mr. 
Duncan, Mr. Watt, Ms. Carson, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Gordon of 
   Tennessee, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Mr. Fattah, Ms. Eddie Bernice 
Johnson of Texas, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Cohen, Ms. Clarke, Ms. Jackson-Lee of 
 Texas, and Mr. Al Green of Texas) submitted the following resolution; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United 
 States Postal Service should issue a postage stamp commemorating the 
                         Fisk Jubilee Singers.

Whereas 6 months after the end of the Civil War, the Fisk School was established 
        in Nashville, Tennessee;
Whereas the Fisk School was designed by its founders to be an educational 
        institution open to all, regardless of race or age;
Whereas the Fisk School was incorporated as Fisk University in 1867;
Whereas funding for the opening of the school was secured through the sale of 
        slave paraphernalia;
Whereas in 1871, a group of students at Fisk University formed a choral group, 
        the Fisk Jubilee Singers, with the goal of raising money to finance the 
        institution;
Whereas in that same year, the Fisk Jubilee Singers took all the funds in the 
        University treasury with them for travel expenses and set off on a tour 
        of the United States and Europe;
Whereas during their first tour, the Jubilee Singers raised enough money to 
        preserve their university and pay for the construction of Jubilee Hall, 
        the South's first permanent structure built for the education of black 
        students;
Whereas the Jubilee Singers introduced the world to the spiritual as a musical 
        genre, emerging as the first internationally recognized group of African 
        American musicians; and
Whereas the Fisk Jubilee Singers continue to tour and perform and have received 
        countless awards and honors: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved,  That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) the United States Postal Service should issue a postage 
        stamp commemorating the Fisk Jubilee Singers; and
            (2) the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee should recommend 
        to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be issued.
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