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Isaac Fisher (educator)

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Name
  
Isaac Fisher

Died
  
1957

Role
  
Educator

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Education
  
Tuskegee University (1893–1898)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Isaac Fisher (1877–1957) was an African American educator.

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Life

He graduated from the Tuskegee Institute. He succeeded Joseph Carter Corbin as principal of Branch Normal College, from 1902 to 1911. During his tenure, the school concentrated on elementary and secondary education of students. He taught at Fisk University and Hampton Institute.

He believed, as did his mentor Booker T. Washington, in industrial education for African Americans.

His papers are held at the University of Arkansas.

Awards

  • 1926 Guggenheim Fellowship

    • Works

  • "The Negro Problem as we are trying to solve it at Tuskeegee", Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, The Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, 1891
  • Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Presidents of Negro Land-Grant Colleges, 1933

    • References

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