Fisk University

Fisk University is a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It was established by John Ogden, Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath and Reverend Edward P. Smith and named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmen's Bureau. Fisk opened to classes on January 9, 1866. Fisk heralded its first African American president with the arrival of Charles Spurgeon Johnson in 1947. Johnson was a premier sociologist, a scholar who had been the editor of Opportunity magazine, a noted periodical of the Harlem Renaissance. Fisk University is currently under the direction of its 14th president, the Honorable Hazel O'Leary, former Secretary of Energy under President William Jefferson Clinton. She is the second female president of the university.

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Historically black college - Nashville - Tennessee - USA - John Ogden - Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath - Reverend Edward P. Smith - General Clinton B. Fisk - Freedmen's Bureau - January 9 - 1866 - African American - President - 1947 - Sociologist - Magazine - Harlem Renaissance - Hazel O'Leary - Secretary of Energy - President - William Jefferson Clinton

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Fisk University features the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers, originally a group of traveling students who set out from Nashville to earn enough money to save the school and raise sufficient funds to build the first permanent structure in the country soley built for the education of newly-freed slaves, the renowned and recently-restored Jubilee Hall. It is the oldest, and most distinctive, structure of Victorian architecture on the 40 acre (160,000 m²) Fisk campus.

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Fisk Jubilee Singers - Victorian architecture

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Among many other notable firsts, Fisk University was the first historically black college or university to earn its Phi Beta Kappa Charter in 1957.

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Phi Beta Kappa - 1957

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