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Began the tradition of Spelman missionary work to Africa [4] Beverly Guy-Sheftall: 1966 Author, feminist scholar, founder of Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College Evelynn M. Hammonds: 1976 Dean of Harvard College, Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University: Marcelite J ...
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Zinn mentored many of Spelman's students fighting for civil rights at the time, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman [16] Zinn was dismissed from the college in 1963 for supporting Spelman students in their efforts to fight segregation; at the time, Spelman was focused on turning out "refined young ladies." Edelman herself writes ...
A billionaire couple is giving $100 million to Atlanta's Spelman College, which the women's school says is the largest-ever single donation to a historically Black college or university.
Frederick Nelson (1932–2009), Professor of Geography and Director of University of Delaware's Permafrost Group; Debra Hess Norris, chair of the art conservation department and director of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation; David L. Norton (1930–1995), Philosophy; R. Byron Pipes (b. 1941), Mechanical Engineering
Performing arts students of the The Lyceum — a yearlong performing and visual arts program for students in grades K-12 — recently had the opportunity to study with area natives, including ...
Nurses at Spelman College Seminary in 1897. Sophia Bethena Jones (May 16, 1857 – September 9, 1932) was a British North America-born American medical doctor and the first woman of African descent to graduate from the University of Michigan Medical School. She founded the Nursing Program at Spelman College, where she was the first black ...
Ruth A. Davis, 1966 graduate of Spelman College; first woman of color to be appointed Director General of the Foreign Service; first African-American Director of the Foreign Service Institute Geraldine Ferraro , 1956 graduate of Marymount Manhattan College ; first woman to represent a major U.S. political party as a candidate for Vice President ...