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His wife, Laura Spelman Rockefeller; [2] her sister, Lucy Spelman; and their parents, Harvey Buel and Lucy Henry Spelman also supported the school. The Spelmans were longtime activists in the abolitionist movement. In 1884 the name of the school was changed to the Spelman Seminary in honor of Laura Spelman Rockefeller and her parents ...
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 ...
Founded in 1890 as an orphanage on what is now the Spelman College Campus, Families First become the first licensed adoption agency in the State of Georgia in 1937. Families First continued to pioneer in child welfare, opening the state’s first group home in 1964 and developing a national curriculum for divorcing parents in 1989. [1]
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.
Atlanta, Morehouse and Spelman signed the affiliation agreement and became the original members of the AUC. Clark College and Morris Brown College joined in 1957, followed by the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in 1959. [1] Morehouse School of Medicine (which became independent from Morehouse College) joined the AUC in 1983.
She continued in that post and as president of the school until her death, at which time Spelman Seminary had 464 students and a faculty of 34. Spelman Seminary became Spelman College in 1924, and in 1929 it became affiliated, along with Morehouse College, with Atlanta University. Sophia B. Packard died in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 1891.
Laura Celestia Spelman was born in Wadsworth, Ohio to Puritan descendant Harvey Buell Spelman (1811–1881) and Lucy Henry (1818–1897), Yankees who had moved to Ohio from Massachusetts. Laura's maternal step-grandmother, as well as her two aunts, were members of the Yale family , relatives of inventor Caroline Ardelia Yale .
Nora Antonia Gordon was born in Columbus, Georgia to parents who had been slaves of Governor John B. Gordon. She attended a Christian missionary school in Cleveland, Ohio and after graduating, enrolled in seminary school in 1882. [1] In 1888 she graduated from Spelman Seminary (which later became Spelman College). [2]