Cotton Blossom Singers

Similar to earlier ventures by blacks, the school had financial difficulties and the Cotton Blossom Singers was formed to raise money for the building.

Some interviewees thought that Laurence C. Jones used the national tour name so that whites in the northern and eastern United States would be interested.

[2] A performance by the Cotton Blossom Singers usually featured black spirituals and the reciting of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry.

The first groups of the Cotton Blossom Singers knew the songs from their communities, but teachers later taught the students.

[3] The CD The Piney Woods School Cotton Blossom Singers in concert was released in 2002.