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Irene née Dobbs Jackson was a professor of French at Spelman College and a civil rights activist who helped desegregate Atlanta's public libraries, where African American patrons were only allowed to read books in the basement. Maynard Jackson was her son. [1] She went by "Renie". She was from Atlanta's prominent Dobbs family. [2]
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 ...
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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 ...
The American Baptist Home Mission Society (parent of the women's society) made a down payment on a permanent site for the school in 1882, and early in 1883 the school moved to its new home. The balance due was paid in 1884 by John D. Rockefeller , who had been impressed by Packard's vision, and the school was named Spelman Seminary in honour of ...
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.
Angelina Jolie is a proud Spelman parent! The actress moved her 17-year-old daughter, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, into her dorm room at The post ‘I’m going to start crying,’ Angelina Jolie says as ...
Packard became treasurer of the board of trustees and 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. Giles assumed the presidency in 1901, until her death on November 12, 1909. Giles Hall was dedicated in her honor in 1893. [2]