Philanthropy in Black Higher Education A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System

by Avery, Vida L.

• ISBN13: 9781137281005
• ISBN10: 1137281006
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-07-18
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This work describes and analyzes the circumstances surrounding the creation and development of the Atlanta University System (later the Atlanta University Center). The affiliation in 1929 of Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College was a monumental event, and John Hope, the first black president of both Morehouse College and Atlanta University—and simultaneously president at both of them—was key to its taking place. In recounting the circumstances surrounding the affiliation, Vida L. Avery brings to the fore a little-told aspect of the affiliation: the relationships Hope cultivated with industrial philanthropists of his time. These relationships went beyond the simple categories of benefactor and recipient, playing a major role in creating a unique higher educational center for black Americans.

Author Biography

Vida L. Avery is Manager of Resource Development over the Texas Center for Grants Development (TCGD) at Harris County Department of Education in Houston, Texas, USA. She is a co-author of the book Race, Gender and Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (2011) and instructs courses at Rice University's Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leaderships.

Table of Contents

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)