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REV. EDWARD T. WARE, A.B.
President, Atlanta University. Three hundred thirtynine
students and 28 teachers in 1908. in addition
to 115 children in the Oglethorpe Practice School.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY (STONE HALL), ATLANTA, GA. FOUNDED 1867
Opened in 1869 by Edmund Asa Ware. One of the best known and most efficient schools in the South. Its principal work
is the training of teachers for the Negro public schools. Independent. Works amana: all denominations.
Approximate annual expenses. $6,,000. Mainly gifts of friends.
Atlanta University. Atlanta.. Ga..
Founded 1869
Rev. Edward T. Ware. A.B.• Presid~nt
ATLANTA UI IVERSITY, one of the oldest in titutions
in the South for the education of the egro, was founded
" as an expression of the same faith in humanity within as
without the color line."
Established in 1869 by Edward A. Ware, a graduate of Yale,'
as ociated with Cyrus Francis and Horace Bumstead, two Yale
College classmates, it was not simply a primary chool, a grammar
school, or a high school, but all of tbe e, and, in addition, a
college, and the founders made the college the center and norm
of all their work. They did this, fir t, for the development of
individual Tegro talent; econd, for in piration and leader hip'
of Negro communities; and third, for the training and upplying
of teachers.
Under the direction of the American Mis ionary As ociation
(Congregational) for a number of year, Atlanta niver ity i
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now governed by an independent board of trustee, which
includes repre entative of everal denomination .
Edmund Asa War, who was a native of Korfolk, ~fa.., and
was twenty-five year of age when he graduated from Yale,
became principal of a public chool in Nashville, Tenn., and
later, under the direction of the American Mi ionary A ociation,
and the Freedmcn' Aid Bureau, began a life work for th
egroe , for which he believed he had a divine commi sion.
Hi influence was not confined to his work in Atlanta Univerjty.
It was he who counseled and advised with the color I and other
member of the Can. titution onvention of Georgia. and secured
provision. in th onstitution, for the e tablishment of a public-chool
sy. tem, and afterward with members of the first Icgi lature,
by which it was e tablished and put into operation. In
a en e, then Atlanta niversity establi hed the first publicchool
. y. tem in th tate.. incc its president was the fir t tate
uperintendent of education.
l\Ir. 'Yare b eamc the fir t pre-ident of Atlanta niver it)'.
He was ucceeded by :Mr. Horace Bum tead, who from the time
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he joined Atlanta niver ity a teacher of seien 'e, in lR75, until
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