About the Exhibit
The Northwestern Community Ensemble (NCE) is a student choral group founded in the Black Christian music tradition. It was founded on May 8, 1971, to provide students a spiritual outlet, to sing Black sacred music, and to foster community.
Northwestern Community Ensemble: Black Sacred Music and the College Campus is an online exhibit that tells the origins of the choral group and concentrates on the first ten years of the organization. It includes oral history interview clips with the founders, early leaders, and student organization members. It also features archival documents from Northwestern University Archives, donations from alumni, Blackboard Magazine, the Daily Northwestern, and Syllabus Yearbook.
"Legacy of Praise"
Special Thanks
I appreciate the following Northwestern University Libraries units for their contributions towards making this online exhibit available: Conservation, Digital Scholarship, Marketing and Communication, McCormick Library of Special Collections & University Archives, and Repository and Digital Curation. And a special thanks to Dan Zellner, Drew Scott, Erin Gilchrist, Jen Young, Jessica Scott, Liz Hamilton, Nicole Finzer, Susan Russick, and Tom O’Connell.
Also, creating this exhibit could not be possible without Northwestern Community Ensemble alumni sharing their personal recollections and donating material so we may have a better understanding of NCE’s history. A special thank you to Bishop Perry, Bob Moore, Charles Talbert, Eileen Cherry-Chandler, Jacqueline Lott Jackson, L. Stanley Davis, Walter Owens, and Warren Lawson for narrating their stories.
–Charla Wilson, Archivist for the Black Experience, Northwestern Community Ensemble: Black Sacred Music and the College Campus Exhibit Curator
Rights
Northwestern University Libraries is dedicated to the fair and ethical preservation, digitization, curation, and use of its collections. This exhibit is made available to the public under Fair Use (Section 107 of the Copyright Act) for learning and teaching purposes, as well as to promote the mission and activities of Northwestern University Libraries (ARL Code of Best Practices in Fair Use). Northwestern University Libraries does not claim the copyright of any materials in this collection. If you are the copyright holder of any item(s) in this collection or have questions, comments or concerns about this exhibit, please contact us via email at library@northwestern.edu.