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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. The ...
The following is a list of notable people associated with Swarthmore College, a private, independent liberal arts college located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Since its founding in 1864, Swarthmore has graduated 156 classes of students. As of 2022, the College enrolls 1,689 students and has roughly 21,300 living alumni.
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 ...
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
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 ...