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Clarence A. Bacote was a distinguished historian, scholar, and political activist who dedicated his life to educating Black voters in Atlanta. An authority on Georgia political history, he studied extensively the barriers to Black political participation in the state. As a political activist he was responsible for helping to register thousands of African American voters in the mid-1940s and for organizing them into a political force in the city. The Bacote papers document an important period in the history of Atlanta, and of Atlanta University. The activities of one very prominent scholar and community leader help provide an important piece of the history of the university and its community.