Word: fiske
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fisk Strikes...
...Paul D. Cravath, millionaire Manhattan lawyer, came a telegram. He peered in amazement through his pincenez at the extraordinary request set forth on the yellow slip. It came from the students of Fisk University (for Negroes), Nashville, Tenn. They besought Lawyer Cravath,† who is chairman of the Fisk Board of Trustees, to investigate "the situation...
What situation? Lawyer Cravath had been informed. He knew how certain liberal alumni had condemned the "disciplinarianism", the "Puritanism" of Dr. F. A. McKenzie, Fisk's President (TIME, Feb. 9). He had heard, even, of the more startling events which had taken place in the last Fiskal week. Fisk students, either encouraged to action by the sympathy of the alumni, or finding that their wrongs had become intolerable, held a mass meeting, indulged in declamations, shouts,'until interrupted by the police. Five leaders were led off, protesting, to the city jail of Nashville, there lodged. Next...
...June afternoon in Tennessee, a man was talking Smoothly the ribbon of his voice unrolled, with here and there a knot. When, these knots came, his hearers stirred and looked at each other; sometimes they burst out clapping, some times they merely nodded their heads. They were alumni of Fisk University, Negro college of Nashville, Tennessee. He who addressed them was Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, Fisk graduate. He had taken this opportunity (it was Commencement Day, 1924) to bring certain painful things to their attention, he said...
...spoke of Fisk's President, Dr. Fayette McKenzie (white), spoke of him, for one thing, as a bigoted Puritan, for another, as a race partisan. He cited the case of a Negro girl who had been sent home because she could not explain how she happened to possess a $5 bill. Here there was a knot. Dr. Du Bois went on to tell how President McKensie had "jim-crowed" the students of Fisk, had caused a colored Bishop to be insulted. Said he: "I am told that the Jubilee Club gave a concert down town this year. Not only...