Well before the University of Chicago established an ambitious research program in sociology in the 1920s, Du Bois did so at Atlanta University. What is now considered clinical sociology, public sociology, sociological practice, and action research comprised an active teaching orientation for Du Bois in the early 1900s, Charles Johnson at Fisk University’s Race Relations Institute during the 1940s and 1950s, Walter Chivers’ Morehouse Family Institute, and Charles Gomillion and Lewis Jones at Tuskegee Institute (now University) in the post-World War II years. These scholars and others mentored students who went on to distinguished careers in the social sciences, social services, and civil rights.