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Philanthropy in Black Higher Education: A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System 2013th Edition
Author(s): V. Avery (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 19 July 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 310 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137281006
- ISBN-13: 9781137281005
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“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
About the Author
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.
