The Fisk Jubilee Singers, toured abroad to raise money for Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
Spirituals, hymns & jubilee songs

The Johnson brothers, Baptists, wrote the Negro National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," Jacksonville, Florida
Anthems

Charles Albert Tindley, Methodist, copyrighted nine hymns, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hymns & spirituals

Charles Price Jones, Sr., Holiness, published His Fullness Songs, Jackson, Mississippi
Hymns & spirituals

Acappella, singing without music
Hymns & spirituals

Lucy E. Campbell, Baptist, wrote her first hymn "Something Within Me," for the National Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee
Gospel hymns

Arnold J. Ford, the Universal Negro Improvement Association, compiled songs for the Universal Ethiopian Hymnal, Harlem, NY
Anthems, hymns, & marching band songs

Publication of Gospel Pearls song book, National Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee
Anthems, hymns, & gospel songs

First recorded Black female gospel singer was Hurd Fairfax, Baptist
Paramount Records

First recorded Black sermon was by Calvin P. Dixon, Baptist
Race Records

First recorded Black female gospel pianist & singer, Arizona Dranes
Okeh Records

First recorded Black women preachers: Leora Ross, Church of the Living God, and R.H. Harris, the Pentecostal Mission; both recorded in Chicago on different dates.
Sermons, and singing on Race Records

First Black gospel chorus established by Theodore Frye and Thomas Dorsey. Dorsey, Baptist, became the "Father of Gospel Music"
Jubilee & gospel songs

Rosetta Tharpe, Pentecostal, sold the first one million gospel records on the Decca lgospel singers became professional with managers and promoters
Gospel, jubilee, hymns & quartet singing

Robert H. Harris, Mabel. She started the "The Golden Era of Gospel". Quartets and ethodist, formed the National Quartet Convention
Gospel quartet songs