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Photograph of of W. E. B. Du Bois, pictured circa 1897. He wears an academic robe and faces right. Du Bois accepted a faculty position at Atlanta University (later Clark Atlanta University) in 1897. Atlanta University president Horace Bumstead brought Du Bois to Atlanta to establish a sociology program and to develop the university's curriculum.W. E. B. Du Bois was an educator, historian, and social activist who addressed the issues of black social problems and world peace. He wrote some of his best-known works in Georgia.
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- Academic Costume
- African American Authors
- African American College Teachers
- African American Educators
- African American Social Reformers
- African Americans
- Atlanta
- Atlanta University
- Authors, American
- College Teachers
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868 1963
- Educators
- Faculty
- Georgia
- Social Reformers
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