Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
Arna Bontemps (1902-1973). Poet, novelist, essayist, educator, librarian. Author of God Sends Sunday (1931) and Black Thunder (1936). Wrote several children's books with Jack Conroy, including Sam Patch (1951). Received the Jane Addams Children's...
Leatrice B. McKissack (1930- ). Entrepreneur, businessperson. Class of 1951. Past CEO of McKissack and McKissack Architectural and Engineering, Inc., builder of Fisk's Carnegie Library (1909) and Tuskegee's famous World War II airbase. Member of...
Left to right front row :Celestine Fludd, Jewette Reynolds, James C. Shane, Lois Burnley, Sarah Morgan; Left to right second row: Mattie Hatcher, Flora Gleason, Frances Haywood, Robert G. Hymes, Irene Bernard, Sylvia Mitchell; Left to right third...