Atlanta University
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Photograph of the Atlanta University class of 1894 (with James Weldon Johnson, noted Harlem Renaissance poet and civil rights leader, at far left). The seven men, dressed in three-piece suits and derby hats, sit on the steps of a building.Atlanta University, founded in 1865, was the nation's oldest graduate institution serving a predominantly African American student body. By the late 1870s the university had begun granting bachelor's degrees and supplying black teachers and librarians to public schools across the South.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia
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Digital Library of Georgia
