Hazel R. O'Leary (1937- ). Administrator. Class of 1959. First African American and first female U.S. Secretary of Energy (1993-1997). Served under President Clinton. Presently, the fourteenth President of Fisk University.
David L. Lewis (1936- ). Historian, author. Class of 1956. Works include King: A Critical Biography (1971), Prisoner of Honor: the Dreyfus Affair (1973), When Harlem was in Vogue (1987), W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (1993) and...
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). Scholar, sociologist, poet, novelist, essayist. Class of 1888. Founder and editor of Crisis and Phylon. Authored the American classic, The Souls of Black Folk (1903).
St. Elmo Brady (1884-1961). Educator, chemist. Class of 1908. First African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1916. Developed the chemistry departments at Fisk, Tuskegee, Howard and Tougaloo.
Bennett College -- Campus Building; Buildings; College Buildings; Seminary; Halls
Bennett Seminary During the Late 1800's. Two Buidlings are Bennett Hall and Carolina Hall. The Money From Carolina Hall was Donated by the African American Citizens of North Carolina.
