Fisk Jubilee Singers Timeline

The Fisk School was established in Nashville, Tennessee by John Ogden, the Reverent Erastus Milo Cravath and the Reverend Edward P. Smith.

Fisk convened its first classes in facilities in the former Union Army barracks, near the present site of the Union Station. These facilities were provided by General Clinton B. Fisk, after whom the school was named.

Jubilee Hall, the South’s first permanent structure was built for the education of black students.

Fisk University became the first African-American institution to be placed on the approved list of the Association of American University (1933) and the American Association of University Women (1948).

Charles S. Johnson became the first African-American president of Fisk University

Fisk University received a charter for the first chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society on a predominantly black campus