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Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 and its 40-acre (16 ha) campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1930, Fisk became the first historically black institution to gain accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges ...
musical composer, studied at Juilliard and Columbia University: William L. Dawson (politician) 1909 U.S. Congressman (1943–1970) Charles Diggs: United States House of Representatives Michigan (1955–1980) Mahala Ashley Dickerson: 1935 first black female attorney in the state of Alabama and first black president of the National Association of ...
Fisk Jubilee Singers, circa 1870s. The singers were organized as a fundraising effort for Fisk University. The historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, was founded by the American Missionary Association and local supporters after the end of the American Civil War to educate freedmen and other young African Americans.
Jon'Nesha Stevens was a member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers from 2006-2010. The original singers saved the school of formerly enslaved people in 1871. Oak Ridge native recalls the pride, historical ...
Ella Sheppard. Ella Sheppard (February 4, 1851 – June 9, 1914) was an American soprano, pianist, composer, and arranger of spirituals. She was the matriarch of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers of Nashville, Tennessee. [1][2] She also played the organ and the guitar. Sheppard was a friend and confidante of African-American activists and ...
Minnie Lou Crosthwaite ( née Scott; August 20, 1860 – January 13, 1937) was an American teacher who became the first African-American woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville 's segregated school system. She later became an instructor and then registrar at Fisk University, and was influential in the social life and the education of the ...
James Dallas Burrus (14 October 1846 – 5 December 1928) was an American educator, druggist and philanthropist from Tennessee. He and a brother were among the first three graduates of Fisk University, the first African Americans to graduate from a liberal arts college south of the Mason–Dixon line. After completing graduate work in ...
A pedestrian walks across Fisk University on a foggy early morning on April 25, 2013, near the Fisk Memorial Chapel, which was completed in 1892.