On this day, Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College formally affiliated, creating a new cooperative entity known as Atlanta University. The alliance aimed to strengthen academic offerings, share resources, and improve educational opportunities for African American students in the segregated South. John Hope, then president of Morehouse College and a prominent Black educator and civil rights leader, was appointed president of the newly formed Atlanta University system—making him the first African American to lead a college in the South with such a significant institutional footprint.
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