Philanthropy in Black Higher Education
A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System
Authors: Avery, V.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Reviews
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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
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-12
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Historical Backdrop
Pages 13-45
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Mythical Phoenix and the Ashes It Spreads
Pages 47-75
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John Hope: Hallmark of the Truest Greatness
Pages 77-100
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Layers of Complexity
Pages 101-121
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Philanthropy in Black Higher Education
- Book Subtitle
- A Fateful Hour Creating the Atlanta University System
- Authors
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- V. Avery
- Series Title
- Philanthropy and Education
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-28101-2
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137281012
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-28100-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-44797-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 290
- Topics
