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Clarence
A. Bacote Papers
1886-1990 (bulk dates 1944-1983)
34 linear feet
NOTE: A paper copy
of the finding aid,
with container list,
is available at the
Atlanta University
Center Archives for
in-house consultation
and may be obtained
for a fee.
Clarence Albert Bacote (b. 1906 d. 1981) joined
the faculty of Atlanta University as an Assistant
Professor of History in 1930 and was promoted
to full professor in 1939. He was appointed department
chair in 1963, a position he held until his retirement
in 1977. He was the first person appointed to
the graduate faculty of Atlanta University and
also served as the University Marshall. After
retirement from Atlanta University, Dr. Bacote
accepted a teaching position in the history department
of Morehouse College, where he served until his
death in 1981. Dr. Bacote was active in many
professional organizations including the American
Association of University Professors, the American
Historical Association and the Association for
the Study of Negro Life and History. A prolific
writer, he contributed numerous articles and
reviews to the Journal of Negro History, Phylon,
and the Negro History Bulletin. He also authored
The Story of Atlanta University (c. 1969). Dr.
Bacote was involved with many civic, community,
and political organizations such as Atlanta Branch
of the NAACP, Atlanta Negro Voters League, Georgia
State Advisory Committee to the U. S. Civil Rights
Commission, and Fulton County Democratic Party.
Under his leadership, citizenship schools were
established and voter registration for African
Americans in Georgia increased significantly.
He was consulted by local media to provide analysis
for local, state and national elections.
The Clarence A. Bacote Papers document his life
and career and include personal and business correspondence,
teaching materials, minutes, reports, speeches and
writings by him and others, news clippings, election
analysis documents, and printed materials of Atlanta
University and other organizations in which he was
affiliated. Among the correspondents are W.E.B. DuBois,
Horace Mann Bond, Rufus Clement, C. Vann Woodard,
E. Franklin Frazier, John Hope, Vincent Harding and
Rayford Logan. Of interest is a letter addressed
to Dr. Bacote's father, Reverend Samuel William Bacote,
from Booker T. Washington regarding the dishonorable
discharge of a Negro army unit by President Theodore
Roosevelt. There are research notes from his dissertation,
The Negro in Georgia Politics, 1880-1908, and his
book The Story of Atlanta University. Photographs
are of his family and events at Atlanta University
including a photo album of campus life during World
War I. |