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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