Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confederate leaders were granted amnesty. Chicago burned down; Ed Stokes shot Jim Fisk. Secretary Seward died. Charley Ross was kidnapped; Steve Brodie jumped off Brooklyn Bridge; the Maine blew up. And on Feb. 12, 1901 Delaware ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution...
Many a Negro feels that Tuskegee's reliance on vocational training is a tacit admission of race inferiority. But to those who would like to see rich Tuskegee turn academic like Howard, Lincoln and Fisk, the election of Frederick Douglass Patterson gave no encouragement. More of a scholar than President Moton, Dr. Patterson is primarily an agriculturist and a veterinarian. Most Negroes concluded last week that Tuskegee will stay well within the Washington tradition...
...Negro college has ever grown rich, and Lincoln has fared even worse than such younger and bigger institutions as Howard, Hampton, Tuskegee, and Fisk. Its plant consists of a cluster of grimy brick buildings fronting on the busy Baltimore Pike. Lately President Johnson and his trustees have been pondering two facts: 1) the centre of U. S. Negro population, fed by the teeming black sections of Washington, New York and Philadelphia, has been shifting rapidly northward and eastward; 2) Lincoln is the only first-rate Negro university north of the Mason & Dixon Line, east of Ohio's Wilberforce...
Harvard Club of Buffalo. Luncheon, December 27, 12.30 o'clock, Mahogany Room, Hotel Lafayette, Buffalo, N. Y. Secretary, Bradley Fisk, c/o The William Hengerer Company, Buffalo...
Nashville, to its inhabitants, is "the Athens of the South." So the President made the rounds of its schools. He saw Vanderbilt University and Ward-Belmont. At Fisk the famed Negro choir sang "Down by the Riverside" for him. At the request of Secret Service men, the George Peabody College for Teachers clipped its shrubbery back lest it conceal an assassin...