Description

Photograph of (left to right) President Myron Adams of Atlanta University, President Florence M. Read of Spelman College, and President John Hope of Morehouse College preside over an affiliation signing on April 11, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Read sits at a desk and signs a document, and Adams and Hope look on.This "Agreement of Affiliation," signed in 1929, set up a university system in which Spelman and Morehouse colleges served as undergraduate institutions and Atlanta University served as a graduate school, thereby providing the undergraduate institutions immediate access to graduate facilities in an era when blacks were denied entrance to southern research universities.

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New Georgia Encyclopedia

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Digital Library of Georgia