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one of the many colleges in Atlanta. The Atlanta University Center is composed of the following: Morehouse College, Spelman College, Morris Brown College, Clark College, The Inter-denominational Theological and Atlanta University. It is not unusual to find second and third generations of Black youth in attendance at the same institution as their parents attended as a matter of choice (feeling that the curriculum and instructional staffs have kept up with the changing times). As an example Delegates' Editor, Mel Patrick, a Morehouse Graduate and Daughter Ann, a graduate of Spelman.

As different from their parents, who may have been educated in the South, were forced to search for job opportunities elsewhere. Many of the young graduates of today opt to remain on home turf as a result of the expanding growth of the job market that is taking place in and around the Atlanta area. We also find the young Black college graduates no longer reluctant in accepting a position with a major corporation who may wish to assign them to Atlanta even though they may have attended a university elsewhere.

The reverse migration of Black Americans returning to the South seems almost a trend. In speaking to some we find statements such as: housing is less expensive and if not less expensive, some feel they get more in terms of space and other emenities (sic), others feel that they wish to escape the urban ghettos that have evolved in so many of the major Northern cities. Very few Blacks completely severed their ties with the areas in the South from which they migrated.

To Be Continued
JESSE HARRIS

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