ABSTRACT
William Edward Burghardt DuBois who is often, and erroneously, credited with founding the research program that came to be known as the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory. Du Bois believed the major flaw of the early Atlanta University Studies was Bradford's attempt to replicate the Hampton and Tuskegee models. He believed the Hampton and Tuskegee conferences were merely "meetings of inspiration, directed toward specific efforts at social reform and aimed at propaganda for social uplift along certain preconceived lines". Du Bois, upon assuming leadership of the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory, was determined to implement at Atlanta University. What he was unable to convince administrators at predominately white institutions to endeavor - a quality program of objective and scientific inquiry into the social, economic, and physical condition of Black Americans. When Du Bois revisited the subject of high school education among Black Americans ten years later he discovered that not much had changed.
