The Literati Club Was Founded in the Fall of 1932 by Miss Zelma L. Redmond. This Organization Sought to Create a Special Desire for Speech Improvement by Making Students Increasingly More English-Conscious; Encourage Creative Activity and to...
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)
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....
District Of Columbia Teachers College;
Seals (Numismatics) -- Washington (D.C.) -- District Of Columbia Teachers College
Pursuant to the US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the DC Board of Education merged Miner Teachers College and Wilson Teachers College to form DC Teachers College. Both Miner and Wilson were two viable colleges, so...
