The Football Coach of Tennessee A & I State College, Henry A. Kean Holds the Trophies for the Lucius L. Jones Memorial Award for Coach of the Year and the W. A. Scott, II, Memorial Award for Intercollegiate Football Co-Champions of 1954. The...
Dr. James Edward Shepard (November 3, 1875-October 6, 1947) founded the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua in 1910. He was the school's first president and served in that position from 1909 until his death on October 6, 1947. Prior...
John H. Franklin (1915- ). Historian, educator, author. Class of 1935. Works include From Slavery to Freedom (1947), Racial Equality in America (1976) and Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (2005). Awarded the...
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
Charles S. Johnson (1893-1956). The sixth and first African-American president of Fisk University (1947-1956). Founded the renowned Fisk University Race Relations Institute in 1944.
PARK JOHNSON HALL (1954). Classroom building, named in honor of Robert E. Park, sociologist and Charles S. Johnson, sociologist and President of Fisk University, 1947-1956. (Still standing)
Warren A. Candler Memorial Library, Named In Memory Of Bishop Warren Akin Candler, Remained The Main Library Until The New Collins-Callaway Library Was Completed In 1991. Candler Houses The Education Department And Admissions Office.
Miner Teachers College; Miner Teachers College -- football
The athletic program at Miner was generally limited through its entire history, especially in the area of intercollegiate athletics. Athletics was still underdeveloped in 1933. At the time, there was a lack of athletic tradition and support for...
Upon the death of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and president of the college, the Board of Trustees appointed an interim committee (1947) consisting of Miss Ruth Rush, dean of women and (not pictured) Dr. Albert T. Turner, dean of the School of...
