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Image of Mary Frances Early, chair of the Department of Music at Clark Atlanta University, standing with Bill Archer, an executive vice president of Georgia Power Company. They stand against a brick wall on which a colorful abstract painting hangs. Georgia Power funds an endowed professorship at the University of Georgia named in honor of Early.Early was the first African American to graduate from the University of Georgia. Early transferred from Clark Atlanta University as a music education graduate student in 1961 and earned her master's degree from UGA the following year.
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Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African American College Teachers
- African American Musicians
- African American Women
- African American Women College Teachers
- African American Women Musicians
- African Americans
- Archer, William C
- Athens
- Atlanta
- Businessmen
- Businesspeople
- Civil Rights
- Clark Atlanta University
- College Teachers
- Early, Mary Frances
- Executives
- Faculty
- Georgia
- Musicians
- Painting
- Segregation In Education
- Women
- Women College Teachers
- Women Musicians