The world’s largest consortium
of black colleges, Atlanta University Center includes six
institutions. Founded in 1867, the Center houses:
- Clark
Atlanta University, is home to one of the country’s
finest galleries of art by
African-Americans.
- Morehouse
College, which honored its most
famous graduate with the Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel
and which now houses the Morehouse College Martin Luther
King Jr. Collection of the civil rights leader’s
personal papers.
- Spelman
College is the nation’s
oldest historically black college for women. Spelman recently
received the largest donation to an historically black
college — a
$20 million gift from Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille.
- Other
institutions include internationally known Morehouse
School of Medicine; Morris
Brown College; and Interdenominational Theological
Center.
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