DeKalb History Center hosts talk on controversial professor

A Georgia State University professor will speak about a controversial progressive who taught at Agnes Scott College in the 1920s and 1930s during an event at the DeKalb History Center later this month.

Arthur Raper was a founding member of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare, writing about lynching and the plantation South. He also was research secretary for the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in addition to his job teaching sociology at Agnes Scott.

GSU will discuss the overlooked teaching tenure of Raper during the free lecture, which begins at noon on July 19 at the old Courthouse on the Square in Decatur.