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Public speaker and educator who taught at Spelman College, eldest and last living sibling of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Eleanor Ison Franklin: 1948 Medical physiologist and endocrinologist Tia Fuller: 1998 Saxophonist, composer, and educator Nora A. Gordon: 1888 Began the tradition of Spelman missionary work to Africa [4] Beverly Guy ...
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Spelman's notable alumnae include the first African-American CEO of Sam's Club and Walgreens Rosalind Brewer, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, former Dean of Harvard College Evelynn M. Hammonds, activist and Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Dovey Johnson Roundtree, college ...
George Dwelle was a founder of the Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, and he was a trustee of Spelman Seminary in Atlanta. Initially, Dwelle followed her father's career interests and attended Walker Baptist Institute and later attended and graduated from Spelman Seminary. She was the first person from Spelman to attend a medical school.
anthropologist, former President of Spelman College and Bennett College: Neal Craig: 1971 NFL Cornerback for Cincinnati Bengals, Buffalo Bills, and Cleveland Browns: Minnie Lee Crosthwaite: community organizer, women's activist, and social worker Minnie Lou Crosthwaite: teacher, college administrator, activist Arthur Cunningham: 1951
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 ...
Smith was an assistant professor of mathematics of the faculty of Spelman College from 1929 to 1938, [2] [6] and then at Lincoln University (Missouri) until 1943 and Alabama State College. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] She returned to Spelman in 1945 to take on the position of head of the Department of Mathematics.
Alice Walker, attended Spelman College and Sarah Lawrence College; Pulitzer Prize–winning author; Barbara Walters, graduate of Sarah Lawrence College; journalist, writer, and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine , and on World News (then ABC Evening News)