Although Atlanta University counted among its faculty one of the nation’s finest sociologists, in W. E. B. Du Bois, it was Morehouse College that acquired a special aura of prestige. The “Morehouse man” became a social and civic model, and was conceded the advantage in courtship battles for the highly prized Spelman women. By the mid-1890s, each school had elevated its curriculum above the grade-school equivalencies of Reconstruction and was awarding full-fledged college degrees. Morehouse awarded its first three in 1897. Among its graduates the next year was a Rev. A. D. Williams, who married
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