Fisk University

Description

Booklet for the 1928 graduation ceremony at Fisk University. The booklet contains commencement exercises, class officers, and list of graduates. Includes an embossed image of Fisk Memorial Chapel on the front cover.Fisk University is a private historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee. The university was founded in 1866, six months after the end of the Civil War, and named after General Clinton B. Fisk as the “Fisk Free Colored School.” General Clinton B. Fisk was a senior officer in the Freedmen’s Bureau, who donated a former Union Army barracks to the school. A year later the school became Fisk University, with support from the Protestant-based abolitionist group American Missionary Association (AMA.) Fisk University is the oldest institution of higher learning in Nashville, Tennessee.

Record Contributed By

Tennesse State Library and Archives

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Tennessee