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Atlanta Conferences. Du Bois reasons for resigning included lack of advertising on his behalf, “Either I myself or someone for me should have called public attention to what had been done or otherwise it would quickly forgotten. Indeed the philosophy then current and afterwards triumphant was that the Deed without Advertising was worthless and in the long run Advertising without the Deed was the only lasting value”. Du Bois faced great adversary while conducting the Negro studies that lead to his resignation, for example funding became an issue because of there was a lack of support that came from the state of Georgia to Atlanta University. There became a lack of support for Negro studies because Atlanta University was refusing to accept funds from the state of Georgia in exchange that they end the Negro studies.
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officially arrived in 1897 and immediately wanted to take charge of the studies of
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Atlanta Sociological Laboratory was the first university department to exercise method and theory triangulation, and the first to use insider researchers. As time went on, Du Bois made sure he increased the awareness of the conditions in which Negroes endured. He also noticed that his findings of
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department of Sociology, whose work was influenced by Du Bois’s studies at Atlanta University that he began working with the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory conducting research and having it appear in
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