Edmund Asa Ware papers, 1867-1885.

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Edmund Asa Ware papers, 1867-1885.

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The collection consists of papers of Edmund Asa Ware, as President of Atlanta University, from 1867-1885. Includes correspondence, business, and legal papers documenting the establishment of Atlanta University and its emergence as a central institution in Georgia for higher education for African Americans. The materials include information on Ware's efforts to establish a public school system in Georgia (1868); the erection of Atlanta University's first buildings; and financial affairs including scholarship funds, donations, and the first appropriation of annual funds to Atlanta University from the Georgia General Assembly (1874).

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Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Ware, Edmund Asa, 1837-1885.

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Edmund Asa Ware (1837-1885), superintendent of schools for the Freedmen's Bureau in Georgia (1867-1870) and first president of Atlanta University (1867-1885), born in Norfolk, Massachusetts. From the description of Edmund Asa Ware papers, 1867-1885. (Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc.). WorldCat record id: 38477484 ...

Atlanta University. Office of the President.

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