Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special investigator Dr. Cameron St. Clair Guild (pronounced Gould), a Nova Scotian who has become expert on Southern U. S. public health deficiencies. The Rosenwald Fund, builder of schools for rural Negroes, is paying for tuberculosis control among the Race. One able Negro, Sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson of Fisk University, belongs to the committee of prevention...
...sequel to that long-ago concert. Wearing neat-looking vestments which Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller had given them, they appeared in Emery Auditorium, stirred a fashionable audience with their singing of difficult church music and of spirituals. Like the eleven Christians of long ago, they had come from Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn.* The first Fisk Singers made $50 from their concert in the Vine Street Church. They turned it over to refugees from the Chicago fire which broke out next day, and set out on a tour which paved a glory-road for all Fisk Singers to come. Known...
...Beecher started Northerners talking about spirituals and about Fisk-the School for freedmen which a Union General, Clinton Bowen Fisk, a Union Chaplain, Erastus Milo Cravath, and a Union schoolteacher, one John Ogden, established after the War in the Union Barracks at Nashville. Erastus Cravath, its first president and father of famed Lawyer Paul Drennan Cravath, the Metropolitan Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them...
...their early tours the Jubilee Singers earned $150,000 with which Jubilee Hall was built to replace the Union barracks. As the singers went on advertising the University, Fisk equipment grew until the first stack of spelling books and New Testaments, bought by selling for old iron the rusty handcuffs from Nashville's slavepens, became a legend. Now there are 25 well-equipped campus buildings at Fisk (not counting the nearby grocery store where students go to eat fried fish). Academically it has Class A rating...
...From Cincinnati the Fisk Choir's tour takes it to Cleveland, Pittsfield, Mass., Hartford, Providence, New Haven, Boston, Worcester, Manhattan, Syracuse, Akron...