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...
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). Poet, essayist, lyricist. Legendary poet who wrote the universally admired work, The Creation (1927). With his brother, co-authored The Negro National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. Served as the Adam K....
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
Aaron Douglas (1900- 1979). Painter, muralist. Important visual artist during the Harlem Renaissance. Illustrated James Weldon Johnson's book of poetic sermons, God's Trombones. Founded the Art Department at Fisk University and taught there for...
Photographs, Outstanding People with a Fisk Connection
George L. White (1838-1894). Administrator, educator, Director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Served as business manager, treasurer, and vocal music instructor at Fisk University. Organized the first group of Jubilee Singers and in 1871 urged them to...
Eliza Walker, one of eight children was born a slave six miles out of Nashville at Flatrock in 1857. Her father owned an ice-house and made enough money to purchase a home for the family in 1866, Eliza Walker entered Fisk.
Jennie Jackson born free, was the granddaughter of President Andrew Jackson's personal body servant. Jennie's mother had been a slave but her master at this death gave her her freedom. Jennie entered Fisk in 1866.
Isaac Dickerson, was born a slave on July 15, 1850 in Wytheville, Virginia. After his mother died, he became a houseboy at the age of five. Before entering Fisk, he worked as a hotel waiter and a school teacher.
This is a group of students traveled with Mrs. Ella Sheppard front row right sitting and Professor Spence who sang at the National Christian Endeavor Convention in Nashville 1898.
LITTLE THEATER. Oldest structure on the Fisk University campus. Part of the original army hospital barracks at Fisk University. Moved to the present location in 1873. Has served as the site for dramatic productions and classes since 1935. (Still...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON HOUSE (1931). Formerly the residence of renowned poet, James Weldon Johnson, who occupied the Adam K. Spence Chair of Creative Literature and Writing from 1931 to 1938 at Fisk University. (Still standing)
TALLEY BRADY HALL (1931). Chemistry building named in honor of Thomas W. Talley and St. Elmo Brady, professors of chemistry at Fisk University. (Still standing)
TALLEY BRADY HALL (1931). Chemistry building named in honor of Thomas W. Talley and St. Elmo Brady, professors of chemistry at Fisk University. (Still standing)
TALLEY BRADY HALL (1931). Chemistry building named in honor of Thomas W. Talley and St. Elmo Brady, professors of chemistry at Fisk University. (Still standing)
LITTLE THEATER. Oldest structure on the Fisk University campus. Part of the original army hospital barracks at Fisk University. Moved to the present location in 1873. Has served as the site for dramatic productions and classes since 1935. (Still...
