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Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 and its 40-acre (16 ha) campus is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
- 1865 The End of the Civil War. In 1865, barely six months after the end of the Civil War and just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, three men — John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith — established the Fisk School in Nashville.
- 1867 Fisk University is Incorporated. The work of Fisk's founders was sponsored by the American Missionary Association — later part of the United Church of Christ, with which Fisk retains an affiliation today.
- 1871 THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS® SET OUT. The tradition of excellence at Fisk has developed out of a history marked by struggle and uncertainty. Fisk's world-famous Jubilee Singers® originated as a group of traveling students who set out from Nashville on October 6, 1871, taking the entire contents of the University treasury with them for travel expenses, praying that through their music they could somehow raise enough money to keep the doors of their debt-ridden school open.
- 1876 Jubilee Hall is Built. The Fisk Jubilee Singers® introduced much of the world to the spirituals as a musical genre— and in the process raised funds that preserved their University and permitted construction of Jubilee Hall, the South's first permanent structure built for the education of black students.
Fisk University, private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. One of the most notable historically black colleges, it is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.
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Feb 3, 2010 · Learn about Fisk University, one of the first U.S. institutions to offer a liberal arts education to former slaves in the post-Civil War South. Discover its history, its famous Fisk Jubilee Singers, and its role in the civil rights movement.
Oct 8, 2017 · Fisk University. Fisk Free Colored School, predecessor of Fisk University, was established on January 9, 1866, in Nashville to offer education–as a means of building better lives–to formerly enslaved African Americans.
Established in January 1866 to educate newly freed slaves of all ages, Fisk University -- originally known as the Fisk Free Colored School -- would eventually become a premiere liberal arts...
Fisk University: The First Critical Years By Joe M. Richabdson The history of black Americans since their emancipation in the United States has been a dramatic struggle against social and economic adversity. Suddenly almost 4,000,000 ex-slaves were removed from a condition of total dependence, and "thrown upon
