Hey, Charleston!: The True Story of the Jenkins Orphanage Band

Book Résumé Anne F Rockwell: “What happened when a former slave took beat-up old instruments and gave them to a bunch of orphans? Thousands of futures got a little brighter and a great American art form was born. In 1891, Reverend Daniel Joseph Jenkins opened his orphanage in Charleston, South Carolina. He soon had hundreds […]

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