Fisk University (original) (raw)

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"Her sons and daughters are ever on the altar"

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African studies (en)
Art (en)
Chemistry (en)
Latin (en)
Literature (en)
Mathematics (en)
Music (en)
Sociology (en)
President (en)
Librarian (en)
President, Research (en)
Writer in Residence (en)

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teacher (en)
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educator (en)
actress, comedian (en)
concert singer (en)
vaudeville performer (en)
renowned physicist and second African-American to earn a PhD in Physics (en)
sociologist, scholar, first African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard (en)
First woman to be appointed professor of Latin at a coeducational college (en)
former Chair, United States Commission on Civil Rights; former Chancellor University of Colorado at Boulder (en)
community organizer, women's activist, and social worker (en)
Organist and Professor Emerita of music at Spelman College in Atlanta (en)
first African American to earn a doctorate in zoology (en)
musical composer, studied at Juilliard and Columbia University (en)
politician; first African-American to serve on the Denver Public Schools Board of Education (en)
author of children's books and former professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (en)
Ghanaian politician and founding member of the United Gold Coast Convention (en)
Concert pianist, piano professor, and accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers (en)
microwave physicist, chief of the Microwave Laboratory at NASA's Electronics Research Center and director of the United States Department of Transportation's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (en)
Art historian and museum administrator (en)
sociologist; Julius Rosenwald Foundation Fellow at Columbia University (en)
Fifth president of Fisk University (en)
Fisk Jubilee Singer (en)
Founder of Morris College (en)
Founding editor of Freedomways Journal (en)
first African-American to publish a best-selling novel (en)
Godfather of Black Politics (en)
Head librarian and Harlem Renaissance poet (en)
posthumously, a Hand of the Cause in Bahá'í Faith (en)
Author, poet, and civil rights activist; wrote the poem on which the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" is based (en)
Presbyterian missionary in Belgian Congo (en)
NFL Cornerback for Cincinnati Bengals, Buffalo Bills, and Cleveland Browns (en)
Chemist and second African-American member of the National Academy of Sciences (en)
Senator, South Carolina General Assembly (en)
Sociologist of the Chicago School (en)
jazz pianist/composer, second wife of Louis Armstrong (en)
Two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee (en)
United States House of Representatives Michigan (en)
President of Wilberforce University from 1942 to 1947, and President of Central State College from 1947–1965; third African-American to receive a PhD from Harvard (en)
first African-American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera Chorus (en)
past national president of Delta Sigma Theta sorority (en)
father and former manager of Beyoncé, founder and owner of Music World Entertainment, and adjunct professor at Texas Southern University (en)
Pianist, professor, and piano accompanist for the Fisk Jubilee Singers (en)
academic, author, activist (en)
acclaimed filmmaker (en)
actress, best known for IKEA commercials (en)
author and Baptist missionary (en)
businesswoman and clubwoman in Arkansas (en)
director of Harlem YWCA, 1914-1947 (en)
educator, decorated World War I veteran (en)
famous bandleader in the swing era (en)
first African-American female physician in Georgia (en)
former NFL all pro cornerback (en)
former U.S. Secretary of Energy (en)
former mayor of Washington, D.C. (en)
founding member of SNCC (en)
inventor, control device for the heart pacemaker (en)
second African-American United States Solicitor General; Justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (en)
jazz percussionist (en)
legendary basketball coach, Southern University (en)
Professor Emeritus of Physiology, Meharry Medical College (en)
novelist, Harlem Renaissance era (en)
pioneering Liberian educator (en)
poet, author, professor, scholar (en)
State Senator during the Reconstruction Era and the first African American elected three times to the Tennessee General Assembly (en)
teacher, college administrator, activist (en)
two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner (en)
U.S. Representative for Florida's 17th congressional district (en)
wife of Gen. Colin Powell (en)
First woman and first African-American U.S. Secretary of Energy; fourteenth president of Fisk University (en)
first black female attorney in the state of Alabama and first black president of the National Association of Women Lawyers (en)
first African American to occupy the office of Mayor of Memphis. Tennessee State Representative, State Senator, Memphis Councilman, Jurisdictional Bishop in the Church of God in Christ (en)
anthropologist, former President of Spelman College and Bennett College (en)
scholar of African-American politics, Chair, Afro-American Studies Brandeis University (en)
businessman, Universal Life Insurance, Tri-State Bank (en)
Lady Principal of Tuskegee Institute and third wife of Booker T. Washington (en)
Actor, Five on the Black Hand Side; The Color Purple (en)
Congressman, civil rights activist, former President of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (en)
former acting chief and operating officer of the United States Agency for International Development (en)
Assistant U.S. Attorney General under President Herbert Hoover (en)
linguist and Chair, African Studies at Roosevelt University (en)
Mathematician and civil rights activist. Fired in 1955 for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. (en)
Administrative Law Judge, wife of Congressman Kendrick Meek (en)
Pianist, professor, and former director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers (en)
Concert pianist, piano professor, and director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers (en)
first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate (en)
first African American male to sing at the Metropolitan Opera and father of Bobby McFerrin (en)
San Francisco District 10 Supervisor 2010 – Present (en)
Isler became the first African-American woman to receive a PhD in Astrophysics from Yale University in 2014 (en)
first Fisk graduate to receive a scholarship to Juilliard, Pulitzer Prize Nominee (en)
music producer, best known for his work with Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa (en)
first African American to earn a doctorate in Chemistry (en)
first African-American woman elected to a state senate (en)
first African-American woman to receive a PhD in mathematics; former Chair, mathematics department at Spelman College (en)
U.S. Congressman and former U.S. district court judge (en)
Grammy Award-winning and Dove Award-nominated Christian contemporary singer/songwriter, ninth-place finalist in the fifth season of American Idol (en)
philanthropist and member of the Ethiopian Imperial Family (en)
pioneering dancer and choreographer; former artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (en)
Harlem Renaissance painter, illustrator, and muralist (en)
first black woman to earn a doctorate in library sciences from Columbia University (en)
first African-American to earn an MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (en)
First African-American president of Fisk University (en)
historian, professor, scholar, author of landmark text From Slavery to Freedom (en)
American civil rights activist and women's suffrage advocate (en)
Choir director, ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Afro-American folk music (en)

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