page_title: Mary Eliza Walker Crump
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Mary Eliza Walker Crump / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Jubilee Singers, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. Abstract/medium: 1 photographic print on carte de visite mount&#160;: albumen&#160;; 6 x 10 cm.
context_page_description: Mary Eliza Walker Crump was an African-American contralto singer and manager, one of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers.
context_section_description: Mary Elizabeth Walker was just thirteen years old when she became one of the original eleven Fisk Jubilee Singers. White missionary and music professor George L. White organized the group at the Fisk School in Nashville, Tennessee in 1871. Other original members of the group were Maggie Porter and Ella Sheppard. They toured together, in various permutations, from 1871 to 1878, including concerts in England and Germany, singing African-American spirituals. They also sang songs by white composer Stephen Foster. Their performances raised money for their school, and eventually built Jubilee Hall on the Nashville campus. Their audiences included Queen Victoria, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Ward Beecher, Mark Twain and Dwight L. Moody. 
  After the original group disbanded in 1878, Eliza Walker Crump lived in Chicago, and managed the Walker Jubilee Singers, also billed as Walker's Famous Jubilee Singers, touring and performing in a similar vein.  They were also a popular act on the chautauqua circuit. In 1921, Crump attended the Fisk Jubilee Singers' fiftieth anniversary observance, as one of the four original members still living.
caption: Jubilee Singers, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. LCCN2010647805; Mary Eliza Walker Crump is on the far right of this grouping
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