Du Bois promised that he would use the Episcopal prayer book whenever he needed to fulfill his student chapel duties, so he was permitted to work there.
[2] Several graduates of Atlanta University told various faculty and trustee members of the school information that made them aware of the need for a thorough investigation into the conditions of living in the Negro populations of cities.
[3] As a result, Bumstead and Bradford proposed annual investigations of the social, economic, and physical condition of Black Americans.
Du Bois thought that the biggest problem with the early Atlanta University Studies was Bradford's efforts to replicate the Hampton and Tuskegee models.
[3] Bradford was a Boston businessman who graduated from Harvard in finance, so was not experienced enough to perfect his studies of black Americans and Atlanta University.
[3] Though this may be in part due to differences in education levels achieved, racism still could have been a cause of this as many teachers were required to have the same basic skills.
Many Southern states reported, during this study, that the cost of running schools for blacks was entirely supported by donations from African Americans.
Du Bois reinvestigated high school education amidst African Americans a decade later, and found that little change had actually occurred.
[3] During this time, Georgia's funding of public schools was based on a variety of state and local reactions to different laws and court rulings.
This poor supervision is outlined in a quotation by Mr. W. K. Tate, who was the state supervisor of elementary rural schools of South Carolina in 1911.