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Spelman College is a private, historically Black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a founding member of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium. [ 2] Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman awarded its first college degrees in 1901 and is the oldest private historically Black liberal arts ...
Tapley enforced strict codes of dress and conduct at Spelman and required "a strict adherence to the rules." As the public sector began providing more primary and secondary education for Black children, Spelman could focus on higher education. Tapley was instrumental in eliminating Spelman College's debt.
Bennett College is a private historically black liberal arts college for women in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was founded in 1873 as a normal school to educate freedmen and train both men and women as teachers. Originally coed, in 1926 it became a four-year women's college. It is one of two historically black colleges that enroll only women ...
Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, faced similar criticism for offering lawyerly answers at the same hearing before a U.S. House committee on antisemitism on college campuses.
Beverly Guy-Sheftall (born June 1, 1946) is an American Black feminist scholar, writer and editor, who is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and English at Spelman College, in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the founding director of the Spelman College Women's Research and Resource Center, the first at a historically Black college or ...
Florence Matilda Read (1886 – 1973) was an American college president and academic administrator. [1] She was president of Spelman College from 1927 to 1953, and the acting president of Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta University) from 1936 to 1937. [2] Read also wrote a book about Spelman College history.
Ronda Stryker was born in 1954, the daughter of Lee Stryker and his first wife Betty Stryker. Lee and his second wife Nancy died when he crashed his plane in Wyoming in 1976. [ 1][ 2] She has two siblings, Patricia and Jon. [ 1] She has a bachelor's degree from University of Northern Colorado, and a master's from Western Michigan University.
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.