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FISK UNIVERSITY
Word of the college student sit-ins in Greensboro spread rapidly to other colleges and universities throughout the South. One of those schools was Fisk University, a traditionally black college in Nashville, Tennessee. This is the chapel tower at Fisk University. |
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Students at Fisk, along with
other college students in the area, began sit-ins to
protest segregation in Nashville restaurants and snack bars.
Photo: Academic building at Fisk. |
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One of the most famous professors at Fisk University had been W. E. B. Du Bois. He and his supporters stressed political activity as the best way to resist racial segregation in the United States. In 1909-1910 Du Bois and his supporters, both black and white, founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This statue of Du Bois stands on the campus at Fisk. |
| W. E. B. Du Bois was an outspoken critic of
the "accommodationist" views of Booker T. Washington.
Du Bois wanted talented blacks to be educated to play leadership roles in the black community. Instead of passively accepting white rule, Du Bois said, African-Americans should use protest and agitation to end racial segregation. |
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