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Fisk University. / 36.1688; -86.8047. 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 .
History 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.
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 gymnast Morgan Price competes on the vault during the Tennessee Collegiate Classic meet Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, in Lebanon, Tenn. Fisk is the first historically Black university to ...
For those who cannot attend the Fisk Jubilee Singers tribute in person, the event will be livestreamed Friday evening on Facebook, beginning at 7 p.m. The livestream can be found at the Fisk ...
Just over a year after legendary Jubilee Singers director Paul Kwami died, Fisk University named an alum as successor.
Fayette Avery McKenzie (July 31, 1872–September 1, 1957) was an American educator and president of Fisk University from 1915 to 1925. 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 was published.
1. Education. Fisk University ( BA) Rutgers University, Newark ( LLB) Hazel Reid O'Leary (born May 17, 1937) is an American lawyer, politician and university administrator who served as the 7th United States secretary of energy from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, O'Leary was the first woman and first African American to hold ...