| 词条 | Rufus Early Clement |
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|name=Rufus Early Clement |birth_date= 1900 |birth_place=Salisbury, North Carolina, USA |death_date= 1967 |resting_place= |residence=Atlanta, Georgia |occupation=President of Atlanta University, 1937-1967 |footnotes= }}Rufus Early Clement (1900–1967) was the sixth and longest-serving president of historically black Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] CareerA native of Salisbury, North Carolina, Clement started out as a professor and then dean of Livingstone College in Salisbury.[2] Clement then served as the first dean of Louisville Municipal College,[3] now known as Simmons College of Kentucky. In 1937, he was named president of Atlanta University, position which he held until his death some thirty years later.[1] W. E. B. Du Bois suspected Clement of being behind Du Bois' forced retirement from Atlanta University in 1944.[4] At least one author supports this theory, arguing that Du Bois' confrontational approach to civil rights for African Americans clashed with Clement's more accommodationist inclination.[5]In 1953, Clement was elected to the Atlanta School Board, having become the first black since Reconstruction to hold public office in Atlanta.[6] In the 1966 gubernatorial election, Clement endorsed the Republican nominee, U.S. Representative Howard "Bo" Callaway, who challenged the Democrat Lester Maddox, a businessman and staunch segregationist who had closed his Pickrick Restaurant to avoid integration. Clement and the Negro Baptist Convention argued that the only way to prevent Maddox's election was for blacks to support Callaway though many in the minority group opposed Callaway's conservative voting record in Congress. Ultimately as a result of an election impasse, the Georgia General Assembly elected Maddox as governor, 182 to 66.[7] FamilyClement's nephew George Clement Bond is an anthropologist at Columbia University in New York City. Another nephew is J. Max Bond, Jr., architect. Clement is also related to Horace Mann Bond. Clement's son-in-law, Robert Joseph Pershing Foster, was Ray Charles' personal physician.[5] References1. ^1 {{cite web|title=Rufus E. Clement Records 1933-1969 |url=http://www.auctr.edu/rwwl/Home/tabid/412/Default.aspx |publisher=Robert W. Woodruff Library Atlanta University |accessdate=April 29, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120420033314/http://www.auctr.edu/rwwl/Home/tabid/412/Default.aspx |archivedate=April 20, 2012 |df= }} 2. ^{{cite news|title=Clement to Atlanta|newspaper=Time|date=May 10, 1937|page=46}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Rufus E. Clement (1900-1967)|url=http://louisville.edu/artsandsciences/hallofhonor/inductees/clement.html|publisher=University of Louisville|accessdate=April 29, 2012}} 4. ^{{cite journal|last=Wright|first=Earl, II|title=The Atlanta Sociological Laboratory 1896-1924: a historical account of the first American school of sociology|journal=The Western Journal of Black Studies|date=Fall 2002|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_go2877/is_3_26/ai_n28967635/pg_8/|accessdate=April 29, 2012}} 5. ^1 {{cite book|last=Wilkerson|first=Isabel|title=The Warmth of Other Suns|year=2010|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0679444329|authorlink=Isabel Wilkerson}}{{full citation needed|date=April 2012}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Clement, Rufus E.|url=http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/NKAA/record.php?note_id=377|work=Notable Kentucky African Americans Database|publisher=University of Kentucky|accessdate=April 29, 2012}} 7. ^Billy Hathorn, "The Frustration of Opportunity: Georgia Republicans and the Election of 1966," A Journal of Georgia and the South, XXXI (Winter 1987-1988), pp. 46-47 External links
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