Notable Faculty
| Name | Department | Notability | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camille Akeju | Art | Art historian & museum administrator | |
| Arna Bontemps | Librarian | Head Librarian; Harlem Renaissance Poet | |
| Robert Hayden | United States Poet Laureate 1976-1978 | ||
| Charles Spurgeon Johnson | President | First African American President of Fisk University | |
| Thomas Elsa Jones | President | Fifth President of Fisk University | |
| Percy Lavon Julian | Chemistry | first African-American Chemist and second African-American from any field to become a member of the National Academy of Sciences | |
| Lee Lorch | Mathematics | mathematician and civil rights activist. Fired in 1955 for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. | |
| Hon. Hazel O'Leary | President | former U.S. Secretary of Energy | |
| John Oliver Killens | Writer in Residence | Two-time Pulitzer Prize Nominee | |
| Nikki Giovanni | English | author, poet, activist | |
| James Weldon Johnson | Literature | author, poet and civil rights activist, author of Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing, known as the "Negro National Anthem" | |
| John W. Work III | Music | Choir Director, Ethnomusicologist and scholar of Afro-American folk music | |
| Aaron Douglas | Art | painter, illustrator, muralist | |
| Robert E. Park | Sociology | sociologist of the Chicago School |
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