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Library of Congress

Loc: African American Sheet Music, 1850 1920

For Students 9th - 10th
View 1,300 pieces of sheet music composed by and about African Americans between 1850-1920.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: James Bland

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Virginia provides an image "of an 1879 songbook featuring the music of James Bland, an African American composer of minstrel pieces."
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Other

Wilberforce University: James Bland

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth biography on James Bland discusses his many music compositions he wrote and his touring as a minstrel as part of The Georgia Minstrels.