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Fisk University Homecoming Parade
Nashville, TN · Arts & Culture
- When
- November 7, 2026
- Where
- Fisk University campus · Nashville · TN
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
Fisk University, Nashville's first university and a historically Black institution in North Nashville, holds a homecoming week each fall built around a royal coronation, a parade and campus wide festivities. The parade typically steps off around 1pm and draws alumni and neighborhood residents, with recent editions landing in the first two weeks of November.
The history within reach
- Fisk University Homecoming Paradesame spot
Fisk University, Nashville's first university and a historically Black institution in North Nashville, holds a homecoming week each fall built around a royal coronation, a parade and campus wide festivities.
Students at a school for freed people toured to save it from closure, singing spirituals to audiences who had never heard them performed as concert music.
Fisk was nearly broke when its student singers went on tour to raise money, and what they brought back paid for this building, the first permanent structure in the country built for the education of Black students.
Georgia O'Keeffe gave a historically Black university 101 works from Alfred Stieglitz's estate, her own paintings plus Picasso, Cézanne, Renoir and Diego Rivera, on condition the collection never be broken up.
A divinity student who had studied Gandhi's methods in India ran weekly workshops in a church basement, drilling students in how to be spat on, burned with cigarettes and dragged from a stool without responding.