Fisk University of Nashville, founded in 1866, is a private, coeducational, and one of the first and most notable historically black colleges in the United States. Fisk school was named after General Clinton B. Fisk, who gave the school its original facilities in a former Union army barracks, and the college was named a university the next year in 1867 ("Fisk University" [Encyclopædia Britannica]). As freed slaves were establishing makeshift schools at the conclusion of the Civil War, the opening of Fisk University was well received by hundreds of excited black students at the school's opening ("Fisk University" [American Experience]). The school had a difficult beginning with years of financial strains and worries along with poor representation, for the school did not receive a black president until a few decades into the 20th century. In the year 1909, Booker...