sentences:  He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in American History at Central Connecticut State College and his master's degree in African-American History from Atlanta University, where he wrote his thesis on an oral history of the sit-in movement during the civil rights era at the Atlanta University Center.He also completed doctorate coursework at Emory University.Fort has been described as a career educator and was previously a professor at Morris Brown College and Morehouse College, two historically black colleges in Atlanta.