Jenkins Orphanage

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The Jenkins Orphanage, now officially known as the Jenkins Institute For Children, was established in 1891 by Rev. Daniel Joseph Jenkins in Charleston, South Carolina. Jenkins was a businessman and Baptist minister who encountered street children and decided to organize an orphanage for young African Americans.{{cite book|author=Jack McCray|title=Charleston Jazz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5hsWQcCvUTkC&pg=PA25|accessdate=26 October 2012|date=6 June 2007|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-4350-5|page=25}}

The original site of the orphanage was 660 King Street, but the number of orphans quickly outpaced the facilities. In 1893, the orphanage moved to the Old Marine Hospital at 20 Franklin Street. This National Historic Landmark, designed by Robert Mills, served as home of the orphanage until 1937. Its present-day location is in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Jenkins Orphanage Bands

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The orphanage took in donations of musical instruments and Jenkins hired two local Charleston musicians — P.M. "Hatsie" Logan and Francis Eugene Mikell — to tutor the children in music. Upon its establishment, it became the only black instrumental group organized in South Carolina. The band's debut was on the streets of Charleston with the permission of the mayor, police chief, and Chamber of Commerce. The Jenkins Orphanage Band, wearing discarded Citadel uniforms, performed throughout the United States and even toured England raising money for the support of the orphanage. It played in inaugural parades of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft. It appeared at the St. Louis Exposition and the Anglo-American Exposition in 1914. It toured the United States from coast to coast, and played in Paris, Berlin, Rome, London, and Vienna. As many as five bands were on tour during the 1920s. The band ceased to exist in the 1980s.Edgar, Walter. South Carolina Encyclopedia (2006) pp. 590-591, {{ISBN|1-57003-598-9}}

The orphanage published the Charleston Messenger newspaper.{{Cite web|url=https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/jenkins-daniel-joseph/|title = Jenkins, Daniel Joseph|website=Scencyclopedia.org}}

In 2003, a 10-minute Fox Movietone News newsreel feature about the band, filmed on November 22, 1928, was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".{{Cite web|title=Librarian of Congress Adds 25 Films to National Film Registry|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-03-211/25-films-added-to-national-film-registry/2003-12-16/|access-date=2020-06-16|website=Library of Congress}}{{Cite web|title=Complete National Film Registry Listing |url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/|access-date=2020-06-16|website=Library of Congress}}

William "Cat" Anderson, Jabbo Smith, Tom Delaney,{{cite book|title=Red River Blues : The Blues Tradition in the Southeast|author=Bruce Bastin|date=1995|edition=First |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oxdloWgNSPEC&q=%22THomas+Henry+Delaney%22&pg=PA47|publisher=Illini Books|page=47|isbn=0-252-06521-2}} and Freddie Green are notable alumni.

References

Bibliography

John Chilton (1980) A Jazz Nursery: The Story of the Jenkins' Orphanage Bands of Charleston, South Carolina, 60 p., London, U.K.: Bloomsbury, {{ISBN|095012902X}}.

External links

[https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/jenkins.pdf Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band] essay by Julie Hubbert at National Film Registry
Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 {{ISBN|0826429777}}, pages 153-155 [https://books.google.com/books?id=deq3xI8OmCkC&source=gbs_similarbooks America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry]
[http://www.jenkinsinstitute.org/ Jenkins Institute For Children]
[http://www.cofc.edu/avery Avery Research Center]
[http://www.sc.edu/orphanfilm/orphanage/symposia/print/jenkins-orphanage.html University of South Carolina Archives]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20111222074335/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,748914,00.html Time Magazine]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070801172201/http://www.charlestonjazz.net/programs.php The Charleston Jazz Initiative]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071028173159/http://www.cofc.edu/~grayjs/ South Carolina Music Hall of Fame]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=5hsWQcCvUTkC&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64#PPA63,M1 Charleston Jazz by Jack McCray]
{{IMDb title|qid=Q64761080|title=Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band}}
[http://www.sc.edu/library/mirc/playVideo.html?i=30 Excerpt of Fox Movietone News: Jenkins Orphanage Band] at the South Carolina University Libraries Moving Image Research Collections

Category:African-American history in Charleston, South Carolina

Category:Orphanages in South Carolina

Category:Buildings and structures in Charleston, South Carolina