Music and Memory: The Role of Spirituals in Booker T. Washington's Florida Educational Tour

This lecture is from February 2021, when University of Tampa professors Dr. Charles McGraw Groh and Dr. Rodney Shores spoke at a Black History Month luncheon. This program was in conjunctions with the Plant Museum's exhibit "When the Train Comes Along": Booker T. Washington at the Tampa Bay Casino.  

 

Below, ensembles of the UT Chorus perform "Bright Mansions" and "Until I Reach My Home." The two spirituals were sung by audience members attending Booker T. Washington's address at the Tampa Bay Casino on March 4, 1912.

 
"Bright Mansions," arr. K. Lee Scott

 
"Until I Reach My Home," arr. Brandon Boyd