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	Emory was founded by the Methodist Church in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia, and was named for Methodist Bishop John Emory.
	During the Civil War, Emory College was closed, and the unused college buildings were first commandeered as a Confederate hospital and then occupied by Northern troops. Emory College, the undergraduate liberal arts college, became coeducational in 1953.
	In 1962, Emory trustees took the lead in ending the racial segregation of private higher education in Georgia, successfully suing to overturn restrictive provisions of the state's constitution.	Former President Jimmy Carter joined the faculty in 1982 as a University Distingusihed Professor; The Carter Center was established that same year.
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