Word: fisk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Education, which sees big-scale Northern university aid as the most practicable way of raising Negro college standards decisively and quickly, more than a dozen Northern schools are exchanging faculty members and students with Southern partners. California's Pomona, for example, is matched with Nashville's Fisk, Pennsylvania's Haverford and Bryn Mawr with North Carolina's Livingstone, Cornell with Virginia's Hampton Institute...
After graduating from Fisk University and Western Reserve Law School, King returned to set up practice as the first Negro lawyer in Albany. There he ran into trouble, especially when he sat down in the lawyers' box which had never before had a Negro occupant...
Midst laurels stood: the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, 57, given the John F. Kennedy Award of the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, thus becoming the first head of the Presbyterian Church ever honored by a Catholic group; Fisk University President Stephen Wright, 53, elected a board director of the Association of American Colleges, the first Negro ever to achieve such a post; Swiss Sculptor-Painter Alberto Giacometti, 62, named for the $10,000 Guggenheim International Award, the U.S.'s richest art prize; Actress Patricia Neal, 38, Actor Albert Finney, 27, and Director Tony Richardson, 35, presented with...
...organ worth $90,000 is being built for Memorial Church by C.B. Fisk, Inc., of Gloucester. The organ, designed by John R. Ferris, University organist and choirmaster, and a committee of experts, will be installed by the summer...
...DuBois' wishes were realized, for a scholarship made it possible for him to come to Harvard. Only one or two other Negroes were in the class of 300 students, and DuBois wrote "I never felt myself a Harvard man as I'd felt myself a Fisk man." The person whom be describes as "my closest friend as a teacher," William James, persuaded the industrious student to give up his desire to study philosophy. DuBois decided to concentrate in history and soon selected American Negro History as his special field. He received his bachelor's degree with distinction...