George E. Haynes (1880-1960). Sociologist, author, educator. Class of 1903. First black graduate of a school of social work (1910) and first black to receive a Ph.D from Columbia University.
Kay G. Roberts (1950- ). Symphony director, violinist, educator. Class of 1972. First women to earn the Doctorate of Musical Arts in orchestral conducting from Yale University. Guest conductor for the Boston, Cleveland, and Dallas symphonies and...
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...
John H. Franklin (1915- ). Historian, educator, author. Class of 1935. Works include From Slavery to Freedom (1947), Racial Equality in America (1976) and Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (2005). Awarded the...
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.
