Fisk University
Established as Fisk Free Colored School in Nashville, Tenn., in Dec. 1865 by John Ogden, Rev. Erastus Milo Caravath, and Rev. Edward P. Smith; named in honor of Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, assistant commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau for Tennessee and Kentucky, who provided the new institution with facilities and contributed over $30,000 to the school; opened on 9 Jan. 1866 with almost two hundred students of all ages; incorporated as Fisk University on 22 Aug. 1867 after its curriculum shifted to training teachers.
From the description of Fiskiana records, 1876-[ongoing]. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970112
From the description of Bennett hall cornerstone records, 18990-1891. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970113
From the description of Chase Hall cornerstone records, 1897-1906. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970117
Archival Resources
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| referencedIn | Black oral history collection, 1970-[ongoing]. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | American Missionary Association. Archives, 1828-1891 Archives [New] Addendum, 1869-1988. | Tulane University, Amistad Research Center | |
| referencedIn | Arna Bontemps Papers, 1927-1968 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
| referencedIn | General Education Board. Archives, 1901-1964. | Rockefeller Archive Center | |
| referencedIn | McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1859-1936. Correspondence, 1870-1936. | Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project | |
| referencedIn | Paul Ramsey Papers, 1934-1984 and undated | David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library | |
| referencedIn | Fox, Herbert Franklin. Jubilee : based on the story of the original Fisk Jubilee Singers / written by Herbert Franklin Fox. | Tougaloo College, L Zenobia Coleman Library | |
| referencedIn | Phi Beta Kappa. Delta of Tennessee (Fisk University). Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Chapter of Tennessee records, 1949-1975. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | People of Indianapolis, 1983 | Indiana University, Bloomington. Center for the Study of History and Memory | |
| referencedIn | Long, Rucker, and Aiken Family Papers, 1871-1976. | Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library | |
| referencedIn | Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932. Papers, 1905-1963 (inclusive), 1905-1933 (bulk). | University of Chicago Library | |
| referencedIn | McKenzie, Fayette Avery, b. 1872. Fayette Avery McKenzie papers. Supplement, 1909-1928 (bulk, 1910-1922). | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Wright, Stephen J. Stephen J. Wright presidential papers, 1957-1966. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Bontemps, Arna, 1902-1973. Arna Wendell Bontemps records, 1934-1965. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | DeForest, Julie Morrow. Correspondence, 1907-1933. | American Periodical Series I | |
| referencedIn | Ethel L. Payne Papers, 1857-1991, (bulk 1973-1991) | Library of Congress. Manuscript Division | |
| referencedIn | Williams, Samuel Cole, 1864-1947. Papers, 1765-1947. | Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA | |
| creatorOf | Fisk University. Fiskiana records, 1876-[ongoing]. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Wright, Stephen Junius, 1910-. Reminiscences of Stephen Junius Wright : oral history, 1981. | Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Dawson, William Levi, 1899-1990. William Levi Dawson papers, 1903-1990. | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives | |
| creatorOf | Fisk University. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1932-1980. | University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library | |
| referencedIn | Leary Love family. Papers, 1875-1996 1950-1996 | University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library | |
| referencedIn | Talley, Thomas Washington. Lorenzo J. Greene collection on Thomas Talley, 1919-1948. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| creatorOf | Fisk University. Chase Hall cornerstone records, 1897-1906. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Jones, Thomas Elsa. Thomas Elsa Jones records, 1926-1949. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Stone, Olive M. (Olive Matthews), 1897-1977. Papers, 1838-1977 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection | |
| referencedIn | Scott Millross Buchanan papers, 1911-1972. | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Haynes, George Edmund, 1880-1960. Papers. 1910-1972. | Tulane University, Amistad Research Center | |
| referencedIn | Tyus, Randall, 1903-1973. Randall Leroy Tyus papers, 1904-1973. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Fuson, Nelson, 1913-. Autobiographical and biographical materials, 1997. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library | |
| referencedIn | Work, John Wesley, 1873-1925. John Wesley Work papers. | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives | |
| referencedIn | Taylor, Alrutheus Ambush. Papers. 1952-1954. | Tulane University, Amistad Research Center | |
| creatorOf | Fisk University. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1949. | University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library | |
| referencedIn | Member institutions, 1944-1985. | New York State Historical Documents Inventory | |
| referencedIn | Reines, Bernard Jacob. Papers, 1939-1969. | Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center. | |
| referencedIn | Photographs of musicians, composers, and singers, 1862-1948. | Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University | |
| referencedIn | Proctor, Henry Hugh, 1868-1933. Papers. 1881-1971. | Tulane University, Amistad Research Center | |
| referencedIn | Jefferson, Cecile Barefield, 1883-1971. Cecile Barefield Jefferson papers, 1901-1970. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Dover, Cedric. Cedric Dover papers, circa 1920-1962. | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives | |
| referencedIn | Weatherford, Willis D. (Willis Duke), 1875-1970. Willis D. Weatherford papers, 1911-1969. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| referencedIn | Wright, Herbert, 1848-1916. Herbert Wright papers, 1908-1915. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Rosenwald, Julius. Papers, 1905-1963 | Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, | |
| referencedIn | Spence, Mary E. Mary E. Spence papers, 1853-1950. | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives | |
| referencedIn | Moore, Theodore H. (Theodore Harrison). Theodore and Catherine W. Moore papers, 1922-1988 (bulk 1928-1931). | Voorhees College, Wright-Potts Library | |
| referencedIn | Voorhees, Lillian Welch, 1896-1972. Lillian Voorhees papers, 1920-1969. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Cravath, Erastus Milo, 1833-1900. Erastus Milo Cravath papers, 1873-1897. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Spence, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1865-1962,. Spence family collection, 1812-1961. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Gates, George Augustus, 1851-1912. George Augustus Gates records, 1909-1912. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Baldwin, William H. (William Henry), b. 1891. Papers, 1886-1980. | Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project | |
| referencedIn | Park, Robert Ezra. Collection, 1882-1979 | Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library, | |
| referencedIn | Jubilee Singers. Jubilee Singers records, 1871-1947. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | May, Daniel, 1898-1982. Papers, 1890-1982, bulk 1945-1974. | Tennessee State Library & Archives, TSLA | |
| referencedIn | Delco, Wilhelmina R. (Wilhelmina Ruth), 1929-. Oral history interview with Wilhelmina Delco, 2006 May 15. | University of North Texas Library, UNT | |
| referencedIn | Paul Green Papers, 1880-1992 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection | |
| referencedIn | Johnson, Ella Mae Cheeks, 1904-2010. Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson papers, 1948-2010. | Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library | |
| referencedIn | Ella Barksdale Brown Papers, 1885-1952, 1906-1926 | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | |
| referencedIn | Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956. Charles S. Johnson collection (1-27), 1935-1956 (bulk 1938-1952). | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| creatorOf | Fisk University. Bennett hall cornerstone records, 18990-1891. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Taylor, Alrutheus Ambush. A.A. Taylor collection, 1925-1954 (bulk 1930-1951). | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Spence, Adam Knight. Adam Knight Spence and John Wesley Work collection, [ca. 1851-1936]. | Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, Central Library | |
| referencedIn | Horace Mann Bond Papers, 1830-1979, 1926-1972 | Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Indiana Medicine, 1993 | Indiana University, Bloomington. Center for the Study of History and Memory | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Paul J. Sachs, 1903-2005 | Harvard Art Museums. Archives | |
| referencedIn | Campbell, Albertine Moore, 1906- . Papers, 1895-1990. | Alabama Department of Archives and History | |
| referencedIn | Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944. Papers, 1882-1979 (inclusive). | University of Chicago Library | |
| referencedIn | Work, John W. (John Wesley), 1901-1967. John Wesley Work III papers, 1915-1971 [microform]. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | McKenzie, Fayette Avery, b. 1872. Fayette Avery McKenzie papers, 1915-1926. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Myers, Henriett Helena Crawley, 1878-1968. Henrietta Myers collection on the Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1947-[19--]. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Allison, Andrew. Andrew Allison collection, 1928-1956. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Shaw, Augustus F. (Augustus Farnham), 1866-1939. Augustus Shaw records, 1925-1926. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Henderson, Vivian Wilson, d. 1976. Vivian Wilson Henderson Papers. | Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library | |
| referencedIn | James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson papers, circa 1850-2005, 1900-1976 | Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | |
| referencedIn | Fisher, Constance C. Constance C. and Isaac Fisher papers, 1919-1956, 1970. | Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts | |
| referencedIn | Taylor, Alrutheus Ambush. A.A. Taylor collection. Supplement, 1864-1953. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Fisher, Constance Clementine, 1902-1979. Constance Clementine Fisher papers, 1923-1979. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Hayden, Robert Earl. Robert Hayden letters to John Hinsdale Thompson, 1945-1952. | Pennsylvania State University Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Bernice Resnick Sandler, 1963-2008 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Caliver, Ambrose, 1894-1962. Papers, 1915-1959. | Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University | |
| creatorOf | Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956. L. Hollingsworth Wood papers, 1903-1953. | Haverford College Library | |
| referencedIn | Jones, Thomas Elsa. Thomas Elsa Jones collection (1-71), 1925-1947 (bulk, 1926-1946). | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Jubilee Singers. European Tour collection, 1873-1878 (bulk, 1875-1877). | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Currier, Theodore S. Theodore Currier papers, 1935-1979. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Caliver, Ambrose, 1894-1962. Ambrose Caliver collection, 1912-1938. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Floyd B. McKissick Papers, 1940s-1980s | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection | |
| referencedIn | Phelps-Stokes Fund records, 1893-1970 | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section | |
| referencedIn | Collins, Ludie David, b. 1893. Ludie David Collins papers, 1911-1936. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Fisher, Isaac, b. 1877. Isaac Fisher papers, 1915-1942. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | South Carolina Council on Human Relations. Records: Administrative files series, 1934-1975. | University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Oswald Garrison Villard papers | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Morrow, Cornelius W. Cornelius Wartendyke Morrow records, 1913-1915. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1816-1907. | Alabama Department of Archives and History | |
| referencedIn | Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. James Weldon Johnson collection, 1886-1980 (bulk 1916-1930). | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives | |
| referencedIn | Simms, Margaret, 1903-1974. Margaret Simms papers, 1951-1974. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Merrill, James Griswold, 1840-1920. James G. Merrill records, 1899-1919. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Crafton, Lizzie Anderson. Lizzie Anderson Crafton collection, 1886-1941. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956. Charles Spurgeon Johnson records, 1858-1956. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Work, Nora I., 1910-1980. Nona I. Work papers, 1839-1972. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives | |
| referencedIn | Faulkner, William J. William J. Faulkner papers, 1914-1981. | Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University | |
| referencedIn | Phelps-Stokes Fund. Phelps-Stokes Fund records, 1893-1970. | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
| referencedIn | Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956. Papers. 1866-1965. | Tulane University, Amistad Research Center | |
| referencedIn | Looby, Z. Alexander (Zephaniah Alexander), 1899-1972. Zephaniah Alexander Looby papers, 1922-1981. | John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives |
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