Marie Brooks Strange Was the Founder of the Famed Tennessee A & I State College Concert Singers in 1931 Whose Musical Achievements Were Acclaimed by Critics Throughout the Nation.
Miss Gwendolyn C. Hale Was Crowned "Miss Tennessee State" for the School Year 1937-1938. Miss Hale Is a Member of the Junior Class, Phi Beta Tau Honorary Fraternity, Dramatic Club, Concert Singers, Theta Omega Pi Literati Club and the...
Marian Anderson, one of the greatest singers in her day performed several times at North Carolina College for Negroes, now North Carolina Central University, as a part of the Lyceum Series in 1932, 1942, and 1946. Marian Anderson was the first...
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President and Mrs. Davis Welcomes Marian Anderson, Contralto to Goodwill Manor and to the Campus. Miss Anderson Was Presented to the Student Body in Concert on January 17, 1955, Lyceum Series.
Miss Mattawilda Dobbs (left) international known opera singer greets North Carolina College president Dr. Albert N. Whiting. Mrs. Sylvia Olden Lee (center) is her accompanist on tour. Miss Dobbs performed at North Carolina College while she was on...
John W. Work III (1901-1967). Educator, composer. Class of 1923. Served the University for forty years as director of the Jubilee Singers, professor of music and conductor of the Men's Glee Club. His father and uncle wrote the Fisk University Alma...
Beth M. Howse (1943- ). Librarian. Class of 1965. Distinguished by a vigorous sense of service to Fisk since 1970. Continues to serve as Special Collection Librarian since 1975.and as director of the Fisk University Mini-College since 1984....
Matthew Kennedy (1921-). Concert pianist, composer. Class of 1946. Graduate of Julliard School of Music, professor of music at Fisk University, director of the Jubilee Singers, 1957-1968, 1971-1973, 1975-1986.
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...
Left to right: Minnie Tate, Greene Evans, Isaac Dickerson, Jennie Jackson, Maggie Porter, Ella Sheppard, Thomas Rutling, Benjamin Holmes, Eliza Walker.
