The Fisk University protest was a student protest from 1924–1925. The president of Fisk University, located in Nashville, Tennessee, was Fayette McKenzie. McKenzie was accused of exercising a dictatorial rule on campus. He had discontinued the schools magazine and newspaper, canceled the baseball team and cut the football team's budget, and outlawed most extracurricular activities. All such activities were required to have a teacher chaperon. Women had a very strict dress code that they had to follow. Still, most black newspapers supported him because he spent several years raising a million dollar endowment fund for the University. He solicited funds from northern foundations, like the Rosenwald Fund and Rockefeller Foundation. These foundations wanted many African-American schools to abide by and teach the Jim Crow Laws and not try to challenge or reject them. In May 1924, a very angry W.E.B. Du Bois got on a train to go to his alma mater, Fisk University. His daughter was graduating that year. Hearing that he would be on campus, he was invited to give a speech to the graduating seniors. On June 2, 1924 in the University's chapel there was the president of the university, students, alumni and others in attendance. W. E. B. Du Bois attacked McKenzie with a speech, criticizing all the restrictions placed upon students. In particular, he decried McKenzie's practice of taking black female students down back alleys to sing in white men's clubs to raise money for the university. Throughout that summer and early fall, black newspapers debated what to do, with many continuing to support McKenzie and arguing that students needed discipline. In the fall, Du Bois ran several articles in The Crisis, the NAACP magazine that he edited, with direct information from conditions on campus from a student named George Streator. In November, the board of trustees arrived at campus for a visit. Streator organized a peaceful protest to demand that students and alumni be given a say in their college's governance. Due to the protest the board of trustees suggested that McKenzie make some compromises. McKenzie agreed initially to the recommended suggestions of the board of trustees, but eventually refused to cooperate with the student leaders. In December and January, McKenzie and Du Bois traveled around the country trying to bring support to their side of the debate. The opinions in black and white communities continued to be divided. This is very and continued