ABSTRACT
This chapter explains William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's research program during his tenure at Atlanta University. Du Bois indeed continued his pioneering efforts in research while at Atlanta and thus remained the central figure in what came to be the development of a highly respected social scientific research program. Du Bois's program was based at Atlanta University. During this era, Atlanta University was one of the few historically black institutions (HBIs) that actually offered college-level training in the liberal arts and was recognized as one of the best schools in the South. The older children and young adults surveyed by Du Bois were similarly asked questions about the justice system. Du Bois's research program at Atlanta University meets in broad outline all nine of Martin Bulmer's features which made the research program in the sociology department at the University of Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s a School.
