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THE COFFEE TABLE BOOK

By Linda Smith

The long awaited Atlanta Fisk Coffee Table Book (2003-2014) is here! The 500-plus page coffee table book covers historical data over the last decade, captures the wonderful works of Atlanta Fiskites and the community, and Fiskites and friends all over the globe. It is a must have for your collection.

Kind regards,

Linda Smith
A Fisk Daughter, Ever on The Altar

Attend A Book Signing

Meet the Author, Linda Smith, in person at local Book Signings for THE COFFEE TABLE BOOK.

Past, Present & Future

THE COFFEE TABLE BOOK is a pictorial tribute to all involved with the Atlanta Fisk Club.

Everyone Is A Story Teller

Linda Smith believes that each person has history and each person should tell his own.

Upcoming Events

Photos

Akua Taylor: Miss Fisk 2004-2005

2004 First Gala: Very first gala 2004 at the DoubleTree Hotel, Atlanta, GA

2010 Gala: Dr. Welch, Dr. Rodgers and Dr. Ford at the Friday, President''s Reception

2011 Gala: 2011 Honoree Carolyn Booker with son Cary

2009 Gala: 2009 Honorees and Officers and Committee Members

Student/Parent Mixer: At the home of Marshall Johnson in Dunwoody, GA

2009 Gala: George Cooper and Harold Kelly

2006 Atlanta Fisk President’s Reception: At the home of Homer and Rose Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spurgeon Johnson.

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Fisk Professor, Dr. Popkin

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Fabulous Fiskites

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Professor and Student

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Future stories

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Ghana, Africa

The book made it to Ghana!

Paying tribute to Dubois

ACCRA, Ghana — At the end of a globetrotting career that took U.S. civil-rights pioneer and author W.E.B. Du Bois from his home in America to Germany, the Soviet Union, China, and many other countries, he travelled to Ghana in 1961. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, had invited him to help write the Encyclopedia Africana. Renouncing his U.S. citizenship, Du Bois became a citizen of Ghana and lived there until his death in 1963—he died on the eve of the civil-rights march in Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream”speech and where Roy Wilkins of the NAACP announced Du Bois’s death from the podium.Du Bois’s final home, a sleepy bungalow in a leafy enclave of Accra, Ghana’s capital, still stands. The tombs of Du Bois and his second wife, Shirley, sit next to his former home, which is today par of the museum at the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Center for Pan-African Culture.

Ghana, Africa

Honoring a Fisk Alum!

W.E.B. DuBois a son ever on the alter.

Ghana, Africa

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The Roland Hayes Museum honors the Gordon County native who was the first African-American classical singer to have an international career on the concert and operatic stage. Hayes (1887-1977) opened doors for African-American concert and opera performers and elevated Negro spirituals (referred to by Hayes as the “Afro-American Folk Songs”) to the classical level, singing them in concert with operatic arias. After studying at Nashville’s Fisk University, Hayes performed at Carnegie Hall and Boston Symphony Hall. He toured the United States and Europe and performed for King George V and Queen Mary at Buckingham Palace. At the height of his half-century career, Hayes was one of the world’s highest paid singers. He made a number of recordings and published a book of his favorite spirituals entitled, “My Songs.” In 1991, Hayes was named to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In 1995, an official State Historic Marker was placed in honor of Hayes at the Calhoun Civic Auditorium on property designated by the City of Calhoun as the Roland Hayes Park. Hayes had performed in the old auditorium, which stood on the site of the present auditorium. Roland Hayes was a Fiskite. To learn more, please, visit http://www.harrisartscenter.com/harris-arts-center/roland-hayes/

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