Education
Atlanta is home to the Atlanta University Center (AUC), the largest contiguous consortium of historically-black colleges, comprising Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, and Interdenominational Theological Center. The first of these colleges were established shortly after the Civil War and have made Atlanta one of the historic centers of black education.
Many of the nation's most successful African Americans were educated at AUC. See: List of Morehouse College alumni; List of alumni from Clark Atlanta University
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