Clement, Rufus E., 1900-1967
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- Affiliation Start: 1931
- Affiliation End: 1936
- Organization: Louisville Municipal College
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found: William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1898-1979(Rufus E. Clement)
found: Internet, University of Louisville, June 8, 2011(Rufus E. Clement (1900-1967), was the first African American to be elected to public office in Atlanta since Reconstruction)
found: African-American social leaders and activists (A to Z of African Americans), 2003(Clement, Rufus Early; the son of a minister, Rufus Clement became a renowned educator and one of the longest-serving presidents of Atlanta University, a leading historically black university in Atlanta, Georgia; the son of George C. Clement, an African Methodist Episcopal bishop, and Emma Clarissa Clement, Rufus Early Clement was born in 1900 in Salisbury, North Carolina; Clement attended college at Livingstone College; after receiving his B.A., Clement attended Garrett Biblical Institute and Northwestern University; in 1922, he was awarded a bachelor of divinity degree by Garrett and a master's degree in history by Northwestern; Clement returned to Salisbury in 1922 to take his first teaching job, serving as an assistant professor of history at Livingstone; three years later he was appointed dean of students; Clement left Livingstone in 1931 to become dean of the Louisville Municipal College, an all-black affiliate of the University of Louisville; in 1936, Clement was chosen to replace John Hope as president of Atlanta University; during his more than 30-year tenure as president, he created the Interdenominational Theological Center and graduate schools of library science, education, and business administration; in 1952, Clement ran for a position at large on the Atlanta school board; he was easily elected, thus becoming the first African-American elected official since the Reconstruction era in the early 1870s; Clement served on the school board for 14 years and led the desegregation of the Atlanta schools in 1960; Clement died on November 7, 1967 in New York City while attending an Atlanta University trustees' meeting)
found: ancestry.com, July 31, 2013(Rufus Early Clement; Rufus E Clement; born June 26, 1900 in Rowan County, North Carolina; died November 1967)
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