Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fisk '75 and Mr. W. A. Jaillet, auditor and steward respectively of the Harvard Dining Association, have tended their resignations...
...protest against the expulsion of Ishmael P. Flory from Fisk University in Nashville. Tennesse, the Harvard Chapter of the N. S. L. sent the following telegram last night...
...PROTEST EXPULSION OF I. P. FLORY FOR ACTION AGAINST JIM CROWISM WHEN FISK STUDENTS WERE INVOLVED BY THE UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION IN SINGING ENGAGEMENT AT LOEW JIM CROW THEATER NASHVILLE STOP WE DEMAND YOUR SUPPORT IN FIGHT FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY HIS IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL REINSTATEMENT...
Ishmael P. Flory, a member of the N. S. L. at Fisk University, was dismissed for having written an article against jim-crowism in a Baltimore negro newspaper. The protest was occasioned by the fact that the Fisk Singers had accepted an engagement in this jim-crow theater which discriminates against negro students...
...them [the Robber Barons] without anger, to paint them as no more 'wicked' than they or their contemporaries actually were, though we are aware now of living in another moral climate and in the midst of a new generation. . . ." When the Civil War began "Jay Gould. Jim Fisk, J. P. Morgan, Philip Armour, Andrew Carnegie, James Hill and John Rockefeller were all in their early 20's; Collis Huntington and Leland Stanford were over 30; while Jay Cooke was not yet 40." Old enough to go to war, they were also too canny. They wanted...