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1953. first African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics; former Chair, mathematics department at Spelman College. John Hope Franklin. 1935. historian, professor, scholar, author of landmark text From Slavery to Freedom. Victor O. Frazer. United States House of Representatives (1995–1997) Alonzo Fulgham.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nettie Evalyn Tressel McKenzie. Fayette Avery McKenzie (July 31, 1872–September 1, 1957) was an American educator and president of Fisk University from 1915 to 1925. [1] He received his doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1908. His dissertation, The American Indian in Relation to the White Population of the United States ...
Work was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of Samuella and John Wesley Work, [1] who was director of a church choir, some of whose members were also in the original Fisk Jubilee Singers. [2] John Wesley Work Jr. attended Fisk University , where he organized singing groups and studied Latin and history, graduating in 1895.