Fisk University
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Fisk University is a private historically black liberal arts college in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 1866 and its 40-acre campus is a historic district listed on the National
Jubilee Hall
University namesake Clinton B. Fisk
A class c. 1900
John Ogden, co-founder of Fisk University
W. E. B. Du Bois
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tole
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…Sweet Chariot"; and changing racial stereotypes. Their tour raised nearly $50,000 (~$1.16 million in 2024) and funded construction of Jubilee Hall. (In W.E.B. Du Bois' book The Souls of Black Folk, this number is quoted at $150,000). It was the first building built for the education of freedmen in the South and is…
Du Bois in 1907
The title page of Du Bois's Harvard dissertation, Suppression of the African Slave Trade in the United States of America: 1638–1871
Du Bois in 1904
Founders of the Niagara Movement in 1905. Du Bois is in the middle row, with white hat.