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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 ...
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.
December 9, 1971 [ 1] Designated NHL. December 2, 1974 [ 2] Jubilee Hall is the oldest academic building on the campus of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Completed in 1876, it was the university's first permanent building, and is a good local example of Gothic Revival architecture. It was designated a National Historic ...
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 ...
By 1871, however, Fisk was severely in debt and the choral ensemble, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, traveled the world and saved the school. Stevens was one of the Fisk singers from 2006 to 2010.
January 2, 1985. The Carnegie Library is a historic building on the Fisk University campus in Nashville, Tennessee. The cornerstone was laid in 1908 by William Howard Taft, who was then the U.S. Secretary of War. [2] It was funded by Andrew Carnegie, who provided a number of academic libraries, as well as many public Carnegie libraries.
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.
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 ...