Exactly three months after the end of the Civil War, on this day in history, Atlanta University was established on September 19, 1865, by two former slaves, James Tate and Grandison Daniels.
Two years later, they turned it over to Edmund Asa Ware of the American Missionary Association and he was appointed the first president; and with later assistance from Oliver Otis Howard of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
As the first HBCU in the Southern United States, Atlanta University was the nation’s first graduate institution to award degrees to African Americans in the Nation and the first to award bachelor degrees to African Americans in the South.
In the late 19th Century, Education is what elevated Atlanta into a cultural center of progress…
In the early 21st Century, Entertainment has distracted Atlanta from her original glory…
The Campus of the original Atlanta University is now Morris Brown College…
The remaining original buildings of the Atlanta University are now known as Fountain Hall and Gaines Hall…
This is more encouragement to support the restoration of Historic Fountain Hall https://www.fountainhallatl.org/
This history is a broad foundation for all Educational Institutions in the Atlanta University Center to reconnect to their origin and sharpen the focus of their future as a collective force rooted in a united past…
Clark College was founded in 1869 as the nation’s first four-year liberal arts college to serve African-American students…
Atlanta University (1865) and Clark College (1869) consolidated to form what is today, Clark Atlanta University (1988)…