Analyzing the circumstances surrounding the creation and development of the Atlanta University System, this book shows how philanthropists' positive involvement created a unique higher educational center for black Americans that exists nowhere else in the nation.

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"The story of black higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the leaders that envisioned it and the philanthropists that supported it is a complex one that needs to be told. Thank you, Vida L. Avery, for telling it so well!" Beverly Daniel Tatum, President, Spelman College, USA

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Vida L. Avery is the Resource Development Manager of the Texas Center for Grants Development at Harris County Department of Education in Houston, Texas, USA.

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Book Title: Philanthropy in Black Higher Education
Book Subtitle: A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System
Authors: Vida L. Avery
Series Title: Philanthropy and Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137281012
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Education Collection, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-28100-5Published: 19 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44797-8Published: 09 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-28101-2Published: 17 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-2398
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2401
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 290
Topics: US History, Higher Education, Education, general, Administration, Organization and Leadership, History of Education, History of the Americas

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