Philanthropy in Black Higher Education

A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System

AvV. Avery

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-09
Mått:140 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Philanthropy and Education
Antal sidor:290
Upplaga:2013
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349447978

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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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"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

Innehållsförteckning

1. Historical Backdrop 2. Mythical Phoenix and the Ashes It Spreads 3. John Hope: Hallmark of the Truest Greatness 4. Layers of Complexity 5. Creating the Atlanta University System 6. Germinating a Black Intelligentsia 7. Conclusion Appendix 1: Other Strategic Locations for Cooperation Appendix 2: Letter: John Hope to Edwin Embree (Hope's Six-Year Plan) Appendix 3: Notable Atlanta University System/Center Alumnus(ae)