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Book Synopsis The Story of Spelman College by : Florence Matilda Read
Download or read book The Story of Spelman College written by Florence Matilda Read and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Read was president of Spelman College from 1927-1953. Throws light on the progress of Negro education in the U.S.
Book Synopsis The Story of Spelman College, Second Edition by : Florence Matilda Read
Download or read book The Story of Spelman College, Second Edition written by Florence Matilda Read and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1881, Spelman College, the oldest historically Black college for women and now widely recognized as one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the United States, is an unparalleled success story in higher education. This history, written by Florence Matilda Read, president of Spelman College from 1926-1953, tells the compelling story of its beginnings. Founded by two New England women, Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles, in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta, its growth was phenomenal. With the sacrificial support of Father Frank Quarles, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, the fledgling school took hold and within a few years began to draw students from across the United States, and eventually the world. In the early days of its existence, Sophia Packard and Harriet Giles captured the philanthropic interest of John D. Rockefeller and his wife, Laura Spelman Rockefeller, so much so that the school, originally known as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, was renamed in 1884 in honor of Laura Spelman Rockefeller's parents. The Story of Spelman College chronicles events in the lives of the founders before their arrival in Atlanta in 1881, and documents the trials and triumphs of the first 70 years of the school's existence, as well as the historically significant relationship between the Rockefeller family and Spelman College, the first such investment the family made in the education of African Americans. From its earliest days, Spelman was a beacon of opportunity for Black women in an otherwise dark landscape. The power of the Spelman College education was demonstrated in the fact that over 37% of the graduates from 1928-1953 earned graduate and professional degrees, a remarkable achievement in an era marked by overt racial and gender discrimination. Students of U.S. higher education will learn much about this unique institution as well as the vital role it played in the development of the Atlanta University Center, the largest concentration of historically Black colleges and universities. The second edition features a new introduction written by Beverly Daniel Tatum, the ninth president of Spelman College.
Book Synopsis The Story of Spelman College. By Florence Matilda Read by : Spelman College (ATLANTA, Georgia)
Download or read book The Story of Spelman College. By Florence Matilda Read written by Spelman College (ATLANTA, Georgia) and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daring to Educate by : Yolanda L. Watson
Download or read book Daring to Educate written by Yolanda L. Watson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While President Emerita Johnnetta B. Cole is credited with propelling Spelman College (the oldest historically Black womens’ college) to national prominence, little is generally known about the strong academic foundation and legacy she inherited. Contrary to popular belief, the first four presidents of Spelman (including its two co-founders) were White women who led the early development of the College, armed with the belief that former slaves and free Black women should and could receive a college-level education. This book presents the history of Spelman’s foundation through the tenure of its fourth president, Florence M. Read, which ended in 1953. This compelling story is brought up to date by the contributions of Spelman’s current president, Beverly Daniel Tatum, and by Johnnetta B. Cole.The book chronicles how the vision each of these women presidents, and their response to changing social forces, both profoundly shaped Spelman’s curriculum and influenced the lives and minds of thousands of young Black women. The authors trace the evolution of Spelman from its beginning–when the founders, aware of the limited occupations open to its graduates, strove to uplift the Black race by providing an academic education to disenfranchised Black women while also providing training for available careers--to the fifties when the college became an exemplar of liberal arts education in the South.This book fills a void in the history of Black women in higher education. It will appeal to a wide readership interested in women’s studies, Black history and the history of higher education in general.
Book Synopsis Undaunted by the Fight by : Harry G. Lefever
Download or read book Undaunted by the Fight written by Harry G. Lefever and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undaunted by the Fight is a study of small but dedicated, group of Spelman College students and faculty who, between 1957 and 1967 risked their lives, compromised their grades, and jeopardized their careers to make Atlanta and the South a more just and open society. Lefever argues that the participation of Spelman's students and faculty in the Civil Rights Movement represented both a continuity and a break with the institution's earlier history. On the one hand their actions were consistent with Spelman's long history of liberal arts and community service; yet, on the other hand; as his research documents; their actions represented a break with Spelman's traditional non-political stance and challenged the assumption that social changes should occur only gradually and within established legal institutions. For the first time in the eighty-plus years of Spelman's existence, the students and faculty who participated in the Movement took actions that directly challenged the injustices of the social and political status quo. Too often in the past the Movement literature, including the literature on the Atlanta Movement focused disproportionately on the males involved to the exclusion of the women who were equally involved, and; who, in many instances, initiated actions and provided leadership for the Movement. Lefever concludes his study by saying that Spelman's activist students and faculty succeeded to the extent they did because they kept their eyes on the prize. They endured the struggle; he says; and, in so doing; eventually won many prizes -- some personal, others social. Undaunted; they liberated themselves, but at the same time they liberated their school, their city and the larger society.
Book Synopsis The Story of Spelman College by : Florence Matilda Read
Download or read book The Story of Spelman College written by Florence Matilda Read and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Read was president of Spelman College from 1927-1953. Throws light on the progress of Negro education in the U.S.
Book Synopsis Howard Zinn's Southern Diary by : Robert Cohen
Download or read book Howard Zinn's Southern Diary written by Robert Cohen and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The activist and author of A People’s History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into the historic protests occurring across Atlanta. At the time, Howard Zinn was a history professor at Spelman and served as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Zinn mentored many of Spelman’s students fighting for civil rights at the time, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. Zinn’s involvement with the Atlanta student movement and his closeness to Spelman’s leading activists gave him an insider’s view of the political and intellectual world of Spelman, Atlanta University, and the SNCC. He recorded his many insights and observations of the time in his Spelman College diary. Robert Cohen presents Zinn’s diary in full along with a thorough historical overview and helpful contextual notes. It is a fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to Zinn’s dismissal from the college in 1963 for supporting the student movement.
Book Synopsis Deborah Roberts by : Andrea Barnwell Brownlee
Download or read book Deborah Roberts written by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Quiet Trailblazer by : Mary Frances Early
Download or read book The Quiet Trailblazer written by Mary Frances Early and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early’s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South. Early carefully maps the road to her 1961 decision to apply to the master’s program in music education at the University of Georgia, becoming one of only three African American students. With this personal journey we are privy to her prolonged and difficult admission process; her experiences both troubling and hopeful while on the Athens campus; and her historic graduation in 1962. Early shares fascinating new details of her regular conversations with civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. She also recounts her forty-eight years as a music educator in the state of Georgia, the Southeast, and at the national level. She continued to blaze trails within the field and across professional associations. After Early earned her master’s and specialist’s degrees, she became an acclaimed Atlanta music educator, teaching music at segregated schools and later being promoted to music director of the entire school system. In 1981 Early became the first African American elected president of the Georgia Music Educators Association. After she retired from working in public schools in 1994, Early taught at Morehouse College and Spelman College and served as chair of the music department at Clark Atlanta University. Early details her welcome reconciliation with UGA, which had failed for decades to publicly recognize its first Black graduate. In 2018 she received the President’s Medal, and her portrait is one of only two women’s to hang in the Administration Building. Most recently, Early was honored by the naming of the College of Education in her honor.
Download or read book Missing written by Cornelia Spelman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spelman skillfully draws the reader into the elation and sorrow that accompany the discovery of a family's past. A profoundly loving yet honest elegy, Missing is, like the woman it memorializes, complex and beautiful. "--Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Won’t Lose This Dream by : Andrew Gumbel
Download or read book Won’t Lose This Dream written by Andrew Gumbel and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students "Georgia State . . . has been reimagined—amid a moral awakening and a raft of data-driven experimentation—as one of the South's more innovative engines of social mobility." —The New York Times Won’t Lose This Dream is the inspiring story of a public university that has blazed an extraordinary trail for lower-income and first-generation students in downtown Atlanta, the birthplace of the civil rights movement. Over the past decade Georgia State University has upended the conventional wisdom that large numbers of students are doomed to fail simply because of their economic background or the color of their skin. Instead, it has harnessed the power of big data to identify and remove the obstacles that previously stopped them from graduating and completely transformed their prospects. A student from a mediocre high school working two jobs to make ends meet is now no less likely to succeed than a child of wealth and privilege—an earth-shaking achievement that is reverberating across every college campus in the country. With unique access to the key players and drawing on his skills as an investigative reporter, Andrew Gumbel delivers a thrilling, blow-by-blow account of a long battle to determine whether universities exist for their students or vice versa. The story is told through the visionary leaders who overcame fierce resistance to tear up the rules of their own institution and through the many remarkable students whose resilience and determination, often against daunting odds, inspired the work at every stage. Their success shows how the promise of social advancement through talent and hard work, the essence of the American dream, can be rekindled even in an age of deep inequalities and divisive politics.
Book Synopsis An American Odyssey by : Mary Schmidt Campbell
Download or read book An American Odyssey written by Mary Schmidt Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America. As Mary Schmidt Campbell shows us in this definitive, defining, and immersive biography, the relationship between art and race was central to his life and work -- a constant, driving creative tension. Bearden started as a cartoonist during his college years, but in the later 1930s turned to painting and became part of a community of artists supported by the WPA. As his reputation grew he perfected his skills, studying the European masters and analyzing and breaking down their techniques, finding new ways of applying them to the America he knew, one in which the struggle for civil rights became all-absorbing. By the time of the March on Washington in 1963, he had begun to experiment with the Projections, as he called his major collages, in which he tried to capture the full spectrum of the black experience, from the grind of daily life to broader visions and aspirations. Campbell's book offers a full and vibrant account of Bearden's life -- his years in Harlem (his studio was above the Apollo theater), to his travels and commissions, along with illuminating analysis of his work and artistic career. Campbell, who met Bearden in the 1970s, was among the first to compile a catalogue of his works. An American Odyssey goes far beyond that, offering a living portrait of an artist and the impact he made upon the world he sought both to recreate and celebrate.
Book Synopsis From Spelmanites to You by : Stephanie Deltor
Download or read book From Spelmanites to You written by Stephanie Deltor and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book speaks to women interested in or from Spelman College, an all-female historically black college in Atlanta, GA that fosters its students to "change the world." This book aims to promote motivation to all Spelman women on their path to excellence. It can effectively direct your life both on and off Spelman's campus. As a prospective student, you will get to decide if Spelman is for you. As an incoming student, you will learn more about the Spelman experience and be comforted by your decision in selecting this distinguished institution. As a current student, you can utilize the advice to enhance your time at Spelman. As an alumna, you may rekindle the bonds of our sisterhood once again. With respect to Spelman's traditions, the book doesn't tell all, but its messages from Spelman women on diverse topics is enough to pilot students successfully throughout their years. Over 200 quotes simply share our story: the mistakes we could have avoided, the sisters we couldn't live without, the knowledge we hope to pass on, and the memories we wish we could live out once again. Stephanie Deltor is a Christian freelance writer who wants to empower women through her walk with Jesus Christ. Stephanie obtained her B. A. in Psychology from Spelman College and advanced her creative writing skills under the direction of renowned authors Tananarive Due and Grace Octavia. She uses her blog "That Old Fashioned Type of Gal" on Letters2theSoul.com as a platform to voice her revelations on faith by offering insights to challenge her readers in their own lives. Stephanie is currently pursing an M. A. in Mental Health Counseling at Boston University School of Medicine and has spent her years writing creative nonfiction, performing in artistic outlets, and traveling to 21 countries with close friends and family.
Download or read book Jackpot written by Nic Stone and published by Ember. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin--which Angie Thomas, the bestselling author of The Hate U Give, called "a must read"--comes a pitch-perfect romance that examines class, privilege, and how a stroke of good luck can change an entire life. Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go, who after school and work races home to take care of her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she--with some assistance from her popular and wildly rich classmate Zan--can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize. But what happens when have and have-nots collide? Will this investigative duo unite...or divide? Nic Stone, the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One Out, creates two unforgettable characters in one hard-hitting story about class, money--both too little and too much--and how you make your own luck in the world. "Funny, captivating, and thoughtful." --The Atlantic.com
Download or read book Clean Getaway written by Nic Stone and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin comes a middle-grade road-trip story through American race relations past and present, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Jason Reynolds. How to Go on an Unplanned Road Trip with Your Grandma: - Grab a Suitcase: Prepacked from the big spring break trip that got CANCELLED. - Fasten Your Seatbelt: G'ma's never conventional, so this trip won't be either. - Use the Green Book: G'ma's most treasured possession. It holds history, memories, and most important, the way home. What Not to Bring: - A Cell Phone: Avoid contact with Dad at all costs. Even when G'ma starts acting stranger than usual. Take a trip through the American South with the New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone and an eleven-year-old boy who is about to discover that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem--his G'ma included.
Book Synopsis A Legacy Continues by : Albert E. Manley
Download or read book A Legacy Continues written by Albert E. Manley and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first African-American man to lead Spelman College, Albert E. Manley provides an invaluable insider's look at his twenty-three years of tenure at one of America's premier institutions for higher education. Much more than a history of Spelman College, Manley offers a glimpse into these turbulent years of change in American society and how they impacted policy and practices at Spelman.
Download or read book Spelman written by Beverly Guy-Sheftall and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
