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Fisk University - Definition and Overview |
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Fisk University is a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It is the oldest college in the city. It was established by John Ogden, Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath and Reverend Edward P. Smith and named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmen's Bureau. Fisk opened to classes on January 9, 1866.
Fisk University features the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of traveling students who set out from Nashville to earn enough money to pay for some of the school's expenses.
Notable alumni
- Aaron Douglas, painter
- W.E.B. Du Bois, a well known social critic
- John Hope Franklin
- Nikki Giovanni, poet
- Alcee Hastings, U.S. Congresswoman
- Roland Hayes, concert singer
- James Weldon Johnson, author, poet and civil rights activist
- Lewis Wade Jones, sociologist and educator
- John Lewis, U.S. Congressman
- Hazel O'Leary, former U.S. Secretary of Energy
- Booker T. Washington, educator and founder of Tuskegee University
- John Wesley Work III, professor, composer and musicologist
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