donna mcilroy, the class of 1977 alumna and a jubilee singer joins us in the studio now. s go more into the history and the significance of the fisk university. donna: yes. there was a need for newly freed slaves and the votto children to and the school was established to provide that secondary education and prepare young african-americans to go out in the world and be professionals. after the civil war there were only a few people thinking about even providing higher education for freed slaves and fisk university was one of those places. with moorhouse, hampton. were also the pioneers of this general using. karen: as the story goes, they were trying to raise money for college tuition. tell us how the fisk jubilee singers came to be. karen: based -- donna: they started singing, they were students of the european style and show the ability to learn the music. they were out doing brown and mozart, and that kind of music, and they got an opportunity to travel, and the people continually said we would like to hear you do your slave songs, and that is why -- how they group. karen: it is inte