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{{Infobox University
 | name             = Clark Atlanta University
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 |motto             = "''I'll Find a Way or Make One''" (Atlanta University); "''Culture for Service''" (Clark College)<ref name="Petersons">{{cite web|url=http://www.petersons.com/blackcolleges/profiles/clark_atlanta.asp?sponsor=13|title=Clark Atlanta University|accessdate=2008-02-25}}</ref> 
 |established       = {{Start date|1988|07|1|mf=y}}<br />Atlanta University (1865)<br />Clark College (1869)
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 |type              = Private, [[Historically black colleges and universities|HBCU]]<ref name="PresHBCU">{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.gov/about/inits/list/whhbcu/edlite-list.html|title=List of HBCUs – White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities|date=August 16, 2007|accessdate=2008-01-03}}</ref>
 |affiliation       = [[United Methodist Church]]<br />[[United Negro College Fund|UNCF]]
 |endowment         = $44.2 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/atlanta-ga/clark-atlanta-university-1551|title=Clark Atlanta University|work=Best Colleges 2010|publisher=U.S. News & World Report, L.P.|accessdate=2009-11-18}}</ref>
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 |president         = [[Carlton E. Brown]]
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 |city              = [[Atlanta]]
 |state             = [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] 
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 |colors            = Red, black, gray<ref name="AthleticFacts">{{cite web|url=http://www.cau.edu/athletics/Basketball_m/basket_m_facts.html|title=Men's Basketball Facts|accessdate=2008-01-25}}</ref><br>{{colorbox|Red}} {{colorbox|Black}} {{colorbox|Gray}}
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 |nickname          = [[Black panther|Black Panther]]<ref name="AthleticFacts" />
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 |athletics         = [[Division II (NCAA)|NCAA Division II]]<ref name="AthleticFacts" />
 |affiliations      = [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference|SIAC]]<ref name="AthleticFacts" /> 
 |website           = [http://www.cau.edu www.cau.edu]
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'''Clark Atlanta University''' is a private, [[Historically Black colleges and universities|historically black university]] in [[Atlanta]], in the U.S. state of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. It was formed in 1988 with the consolidation of Clark College (founded in 1869) and Atlanta University (founded in 1865). Clark Atlanta University is a member of the [[United Negro College Fund]] (UNCF).

== History ==
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|+ style="font-size: 1.25em;" |'''CAU's history at a glance'''
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| 1865 
|width="175pt"|Atlanta University founded
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|1869
|width="175pt"|Clark College established in Atlanta's Summerhill section
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|1871
|width="175pt"|Clark College relocated to Whitehall and McDaniel Street property. 
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| 1877 
|width="175pt"|Clark College chartered and renamed to Clark University
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|1880
|width="175pt"|Clark University conferred its first degree
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| 1929 
|width="175pt"|[[Atlanta University Center]] established
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| 1988 
|width="175pt"|Clark Atlanta University created
|}
Clark Atlanta University was formed by the consolidation of Atlanta University, which offered only graduate degrees, and Clark College, a four-year undergraduate institution oriented to the liberal arts.

===Atlanta University===
[[File:Atlanta University exhibit - NARA - 559173.tif|thumb|left|An African American student art exhibition at the university in the mid-20th century.]]
Atlanta University, founded in 1865 by the [[American Missionary Association]], with later assistance from the [[Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands|Freedmen's Bureau]], was, before consolidation, the nation's oldest graduate institution serving a predominantly African-American student body. By the late 1870s, Atlanta College had begun granting bachelor's degrees and supplying black teachers and librarians to the public schools of the South. In 1929–30, it began offering graduate education exclusively in various liberal arts areas, and in the social and natural sciences. It gradually added professional programs in social work, library science, and business administration. At this same time, Atlanta University affiliated with [[Morehouse College]] and [[Spelman College]] in a university plan known as the Atlanta University Center. 

The campus was moved to its present site, and the modern organization of the [[Atlanta University Center]] emerged, with Clark College, [[Morris Brown College]], and the [[Interdenominational Theological Center]] joining the affiliation later. The story of the Atlanta University over the next twenty years from 1930 includes many significant developments. Graduate Schools of Library Science, Education, and Business Administration were established in 1941, 1944, and 1946, respectively. The Atlanta School of Social Work, long associated with the university, gave up its charter in 1947 to become an integral part of the university. In 1957, the controlling Boards of the six institutions (Atlanta University; Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown and Spelman Colleges; and Gammon Theological Seminary) ratified new Articles of Affiliation.  The new contract created the Atlanta University Center. The influence of Atlanta University has been extended through professional journals and organizations, including ''Phylon''.  Through Dr. [[W. E. B. Du Bois]], a member of the faculty, the university was also associated with the [[NAACP|National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP).

===Clark College===
Clark College was founded in 1869 by the [[Freedman's Aid Society]] of the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]], which later became the [[United Methodist Church]]. It was named for Bishop [[Davis Wasgatt Clark]], who was the first President of the Freedman's Aid Society and became Bishop in 1864. A sparsely furnished room in Clark Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal Church in Atlanta's Summerhill section, housed the first Clark College class. In 1871, the school relocated to a new site on the newly purchased Whitehall and McDaniel Street property. In 1877, the School was chartered as Clark University.

An early benefactor, Bishop [[Gilbert Haven]], visualized Clark as the "university" of all the Methodist schools founded for the education of freedmen. After the school had changed locations several times, Bishop Haven, who succeeded Bishop Clark, was instrumental in acquiring {{convert|450|acre|km2|1}} in South Atlanta, where in 1880 the school conferred its first degree. (The university relocated in 1883.) Also in 1883, Clark established a theology department.  Named for Dr. Elijah H. Gammon, the Gammon School of Theology in 1888 became an independent theological seminary.  It is part of the Interdenominational Theological Center.

===2009 faculty firings===
In 2009, the university fired 55 members of the faculty (20 of whom had tenure) after declaring an "enrollment emergency."<ref name="insideed">{{cite web|url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/14/cau|title=When tenure means nothing|work=Inside Higher Ed|date=January 14, 2010}}</ref> The action earned the university a severe censure from the [[American Association of University Professors]], which asserted that there was no "enrollment emergency" and decried the lack of faculty involvement in the process.<ref name="insideed" />
The AAUP investigation specifically cited that Clark Atlanta University did not provide dismissed faculty members with hearings before faculty peers, as required by both AAUP standards and university regulations, and for providing a "sorely deficient" one month of severance salary. The AAUP panel consisted of four individuals and included one professor at a historically black institution (Charles L. Betsey of Howard University) and one professor who according to ''Inside Higher Ed'', "has written extensively and sympathetically about black colleges" (Marybeth Gasman of the [[University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education]]).<ref name="insideed" />

== Campus ==
Clark Atlanta University's main campus houses 37 buildings on {{convert|126|acre|km2|1}} and is {{convert|1.5|mi|km|1}} from the center of Atlanta.

===Residential facilities===
*Holmes Hall
*Pfeiffer Hall
*Merner Hall
*Bumstead Hall – vacant for renovations
*Ware Hall
*Beckwith Hall
*Residential Apartments – now called "James P. Brawley Hall" when the original James P. Brawley Hall was demolished in 2007
*Heritage Commons
*CAU Suites East / West
*Gammon Hall / ITC Center
*Tichina hall

==Academics==
Clark Atlanta was ranked on ''[[The Washington Monthly]]'''s 2008 list of "Best Colleges and Universities" and the ''[[US News & World Report]]'''s list of historically black colleges and universities (No. 24 out of 34 best).<ref name="BroadnaxRetirement">{{cite web|url=http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/02/what-made-clark-atlanta-univer-000216.php|title=What made Clark Atlanta University President retire?|last=Anderson|first=Michelle D.|date=February 22, 2008|accessdate=2008-02-25}}</ref>

==Research==
Clark Atlanta has a Carnegie classification of "Research University – High Research Activity" and is one of only four Historically Black Colleges and Universities to earn such a distinction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cau.edu/CMFiles/Docs/CAU%20Annual%20Report%202010.pdf|title=2010 Annual Report|page=3|publisher=Clark Atlanta University|accessdate=2010-10-08}}</ref> The university receives annual research grants of $ 17,570,778.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cau.edu/CMFiles/Docs/CAU%20Annual%20Report%202010.pdf|title=2010 Annual Report|page=16|publisher=Clark Atlanta University|accessdate=2010-10-08}}</ref>

==Student life==

===National fraternities and sororities===
All nine of the [[National Pan-Hellenic Council]] organizations currently have chapters at Clark Atlanta University. Other organizations currently registered on campus include [[Sigma Alpha Iota]], [[Gamma Sigma Sigma]], [[Kappa Kappa Psi]], [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]], [[Tau Beta Sigma]] and [[Gamma Phi Delta Sorority|Gamma Phi Delta]].

===Student media===

====WCLK ====
CAU operates [[WCLK]] (91.9 FM), a jazz radio station.

=== Athletics ===
Clark Atlanta University, known athletically as the Panthers, are competing within the [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]] (SIAC) of the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA), [[Division II (NCAA)|Division II]]. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, softball, tennis, track & field and volleyball.
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==Notable alumni==
:''See also [[:Category:Clark Atlanta University alumni|Clark Atlanta University alumni]]''
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This is a list of notable alumni which includes graduates, non-graduate former students, and current students of Atlanta University, Clark College, Clark University, and/or Clark Atlanta University. It does not include other notable persons who may have attended Clark Atlanta University as cross-registered students (credit as an alumnus is not given to Clark Atlanta University, which has spurred controversy over the school's cross-registration policies).
[[Image:Jamesweldonjohnson.jpg|thumb|right|90px|James Weldon Johnson AU, Class of 1894]]
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{{Alum|name=[[Ralph Abernathy]]|year=1951|nota=Civil rights activist|ref=<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Kirkland|first=W. Michael|encyclopedia=The New Georgia Encyclopedia|title=Ralph Abernathy (1926–1990)|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2736&sug=y|date=April 27, 2004|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council|location=Athens, GA|oclc=54400935|accessdate=2008-02-12}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Marvin S. Arrington, Sr.]]|year=1963|nota=Politician and jurist|ref=<ref>[http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1258&category=LawMakers The HistoryMakers<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Bryan Barber]]|year=1996|nota=Director of the 2006 film ''Idlewild''|ref=<ref>{{IMDb name|id=1309359|name=Bryan Barber}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Benjamin Brown]]|year=|nota=Civil rights activist and Georgia State Representative (1966, 1969–77)|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.gsu.edu/spcoll/pages/pages.asp?ldID=105&guideID=551&ID=3768|title=Black Involvement in Politics: Benjamin Brown|accessdate=2008-02-25}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Sir Edward Miles III]]|year=1998|nota=Philanthropist|ref=<ref>T. Murray (October 13, 2004). [http://www.aucalumni.com/news_bcox.asp Confessions of CAU Grad]. ''AUCAlumni''. Accessed January 11, 2008.</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Aki Collins]]|year=1997|nota=Assistant coach with the [[Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball|Marquette Golden Eagles men's basketball team]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gomarquette.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/collins_aki00.html|title=Aki Collins|publisher=Marquette University Athletics|accessdate=2010-10-26}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Marva Collins]]|year=1957|nota=Educator; founder and director of the [[Westside Preparatory School]] in Chicago, Illinois|ref=<ref name="Petersons" />}}
{{Alum|name=[[Mary Frances Early]]|year=1957|nota=First African-American graduate of the [[University of Georgia]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2514|title=Mary Frances Early|publisher=Fox Television Stations, Inc|accessdate=May 15, 2005}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Wayman Carver]] |year=|nota=Composer; first person to use extensive use of the flute in jazz|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Amanda Davis]]|year=|nota=News anchor at [[WAGA (TV)|WAGA (Fox5)]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/myfox/pages/InsideFox/Detail?contentId=317208&version=7&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=5.3.1|title=Amanda Davis|publisher=Fox Television Stations, Inc|accessdate=2008-02-25}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Pearl Cleage]]|year=|nota=Author|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=[[DJ Drama]]|year=|nota=Music producer|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Henry O. Flipper]]|year=|nota=First black graduate of [[West Point]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buffalosoldier.net/HenryO.Flipper2.htm|title=Second Lieutenant Hennry O. Flipper: First Black Graduate of West Point|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior|accessdate=2008-02-25}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[C. Hartley Grattan]]|year=1923|nota=Economist, historian|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/AMR/Grattan/grattan.html|title=In Memorium – C. Hartley Grattan|publisher=University of Texas|accessdate=December 18, 2009}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Grace Towns Hamilton]]|year=1927|nota=First African American woman elected to the [[Georgia General Assembly]]|ref=<ref>{{cite book|last=Graham|first=Lawrence Otis|title=Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class|year=1999|publisher=Harper Perennial|isbn=978-0-06-098438-0|page=339}}</ref> }}
{{Alum|name=[[James A. Hefner]]|year=1962|nota=Economist|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Fletcher Henderson]]|year=1920|nota=Pianist, band leader and composer|ref=<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Hill|first=Ian|encyclopedia=The New Georgia Encyclopedia|title=Fletcher Henderson (1897–1952)|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1690|date=December 20, 2005|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council|location=Athens, GA|oclc=54400935|accessdate=2008-02-22}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[New Jack]]|year=|nota=Professional wrestler|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Alexander Jefferson]]|year=1942|nota=Retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and a member of the [[Tuskegee Airmen]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=2040&category=Educationmakers&occupation=Education%20administrator&name=Alexander%20Jefferson|title=Alexander Jefferson Biography|publisher=thehistorymakers.com|accessdate=January 25, 2011}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Robert R. Jennings]]|nota=President of [[Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University]]}}
{{Alum|name=[[Hank Johnson|Henry C. "Hank" Johnson]]|year=1976|nota=U.S. Congressman, Georgia 4th District|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/008/000161522/|title=Hank Johnson|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=Soylent Communications|work=NNDB}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hankjohnson.house.gov/about_hank.shtml|title=Congressman Hank Johnson Georgia's Fourth Congressional District|accessdate=2008-02-25}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[James Weldon Johnson]]|year=1904|nota=Writer|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Clowney|first=Earle D.|encyclopedia=The New Georgia Encyclopedia|title=Clark Atlanta University|url= http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1447&hl=y|date=August 24, 2004|publisher=Georgia Humanities Council|location=Athens, GA|oclc=54400935|accessdate=2008-02-22}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/830/000101527/|title=James Weldon Johnson|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=Soylent Communications|work=NNDB}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Otis Johnson]]|year=1969|nota=Mayor of [[Savannah, Georgia]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://otisformayor.com/biography.htm|title=Biography – Who is Dr. Otis S. Johnson?|accessdate=2008-02-25}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[C. LeFoy Grant]]|year=1999|nota=Television editor and producer; founder of HBCU Unit Network|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nabj.org/front/nabj/story/9220p-12723c.php|title=Grant wins award for TV documentary|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=NABJ|work=NNDB}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/080910/0432552.html|title=Yahoo Biz article|accessdate=2008-02-25}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Reatha Clark King]]|year=|nota=Scientist, philanthropist, and educator, and former president and executive director of General Mills Foundation|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=[[Kenny Leon]]|year=|nota=Actor and former artistic director of Atlanta's Alliance Theatre|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=[[Lucy Craft Laney]]|year=|nota=Educator, opened the first school for black children in [[Augusta, Georgia]] in late 19th century|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Curtis Johnson (linebacker)|Curtis Johnson]]|year=2008|nota=[[NFL]] linebacker|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Walt Landers]]|year=|nota=[[NFL]] player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Emmanuel Lewis]]|year=1997|nota=Actor|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/156/000026078/|title=Emmanuel Lewis|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=Soylent Communications|work=NNDB}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Martha S. Lewis]]|year=|nota=Government official in New York City and state|ref=<ref>Lewis, Martha S., Obituary, ''[[Albany Times Union]]'', found by searching [http://www.legacy.com/TimesUnion-Albany/Obituaries.asp?Page=SEARCHRESULTS Legacy.com Obituary web site]. Accessed April 15, 2008.</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Evelyn G. Lowery]]|year=|nota= American civil rights activist and leader; marched in the historic [[Selma to Montgomery marches|Selma to Montgomery March]] |ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Mase|Mason "Mase" Durrell Bethea]]|year=|nota=Rapper|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Harry Pace]]|year=1903|nota=African-American recording pioneer, founder of Black Swan Records, Insurance executive|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Pace|title=Harry Pace|accessdate=2013-02-25|publisher=Wikipedia}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Eva Pigford]]|year=|nota=Model/actress; winner of ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'' Cycle 3|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Nnegest Likke]]|year=|nota=Movie director and screenwriter|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Jacque Reid]]|year=1995|nota=Journalist|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Pernessa C. Seele]]|nota=Immunologist and the CEO and founder of [[Balm in Gilead, Inc.]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187389,00.html|title=Pernessa C. Seele|publisher=time.com|accessdate=January 25, 2011}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[C. Lamont Smith]]|nota=Sports agent, the founder and president of [[All Pro Sports and Entertainment]]}}
{{Alum|name=[[Morris Stroud]]|year=1969|nota=Former professional football player|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Horace E. Tate]]|year=|nota=Georgia state senator and educator who oversaw the merger of the black and white teachers' associations |ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=[[Michelle Y Madison]]|year=|nota=Music executive|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=[[Bobby V|Bobby Wilson]]|year=2004|nota=Singer better known by his stage name [[Bobby V]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/610/000109283/|title=Bobby Valentino|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=Soylent Communications|work=NNDB}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Phuthuma Nhleko]]|year=|nota=CEO of the [[MTN Group]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Jo Ann Robinson]]|year=1948|nota=Civil rights activist|ref=}} 
{{Alum|name=[[Horace T. Ward]]|year=|nota=Judge and first black student to legally challenge segregation in higher education in the Deep South|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=[[Lisa Washington]]|year=1998|nota= News anchor of [[WHNT-TV|WHNT TV]], [[Huntsville, Alabama]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whnt.com/Global/story.asp?S=1344800&nav=menu108_6_5_2|title=Lisa Washington}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Walter Francis White]]|year=1916|nota=[[NAACP]] leader|ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/932/000159455/|title=Walter White|accessdate=2008-02-25|publisher=Soylent Communications|work=NNDB}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Hosea Williams]]|year=|nota=Civil rights activist|ref=<ref>{{New Georgia Encyclopedia|id=h-2721|title=Hosea Williams (1926–2000)|last=Kirkland|first=W. Michael|date=March 24, 2006|accessdate=2008-02-22}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Madaline A. Williams]]|nota=First black woman elected to the New Jersey state legislature|ref=<ref>{{cite news |title=Mrs. Madaline A. Williams Dies|work=[[The New York Times]]|page=86|date=December 15, 1968|accessdate=2009-01-04|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50F12FB395F127A93C7A81789D95F4C8685F9}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Louis Tompkins Wright]]|year=|nota=First black surgeon to head the Department of Surgery at Harlem Hospital in New York City|ref=<ref name="NewGAEncyclopedia" />}}
{{Alum|name=[[Richard R. Wright]]|year=1876|nota=First black Paymaster in the [[U.S. Army]] and first president of [[Savannah State University]]|ref=<ref>{{cite web|title=New Georgia Encyclopedia|url=http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1428|accessdate=2007-08-30}}</ref>}}
{{Alum|name=[[Dorothy Yancy]]|year=|nota=president of [[Johnson C. Smith University]]|ref=}}
{{Alum|name=[[Ella Gaines Yates]]|nota=First African-American director of the [[Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System]]}}
{{Alum|name=[[Chaka Zulu]]|year=|nota=Hip hop producer and manager|ref=}}

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==Notable faculty==
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{{Faculty|name=[[Ariel Serena Hedges Bowen]]|dept=|nota=Music Professor|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=[[Carlton E. Brown]]|dept=Administration|nota=President Clark Atlanta University|ref=}}

{{Faculty|name=[[W.E.B. DuBois]]|dept=Sociology|nota=Scholar, author, and civil rights activist|ref=<ref>{{New Georgia Encyclopedia|id=h-905|name=W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia|author=Derrick P. Alridge|date=January 8, 2010|accessdate=2011-07-21}}</ref>}}

{{Faculty|name=[[Virginia Lacy Jones]]|dept=|nota=One of the first African-Americans to earn a PhD in the Library Sciences|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=[[J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr.]]|dept=|nota=Mathematician and nuclear scientist|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=[[Whitney M. Young Jr.]]|dept=|nota=Dean of Social Work, prior to becoming Executive Director of National Urban League|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=[[Whitman Mayo]]|dept=|nota=Drama Professor|ref=}}
{{Faculty|name=[[Henry Ossawa Tanner]]|dept=|nota=The first African American painter to gain international acclaim.|ref=<ref name =Springfield>{{cite web | url=http://www.spfld-museum-of-art.org/collection/tanner.html  | title=Henry Ossawa Tanner | accessdate=July 21, 2012 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20060110063014/http://www.spfld-museum-of-art.org/collection/tanner.html |archivedate = January 10, 2006}}</ref>}}

{{Faculty|name=[[Mary Frances Early]]|dept=Music|nota=The first African American graduate of the [[University of Georgia]]|ref=<ref name=NPR>{{cite web | url=http://www.npr.org/2012/08/14/158742330/university-of-georgia-to-honor-first-black-graduate| title= University of Georgia To Honor First Black Graduate}}</ref>}}
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==Further reading and information==
* [http://fax.libs.uga.edu/E185x5xA881p/ Atlanta University Publications]: a series, which began in 1896, of studies on problems affecting black people in the United States, edited by [[W. E. B. Du Bois]].

== See also ==
{{Portal|Atlanta|African American|University}}
* [[:Category:Clark Atlanta University faculty|Clark Atlanta University faculty]]
* [[List of historically black colleges of the United States]]
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==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.cau.edu/ Official website]
* [http://www.clarkatlantasports.com/ Official athletics website]
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