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The Story of Spelman College, Second Edition

Author : Florence Matilda Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692472446
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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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.

The Story of Spelman College

Author : Florence Matilda Read
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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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.

The Story of Spelman College. By Florence Matilda Read

Author : Spelman College (ATLANTA, Georgia)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)

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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:

Daring to Educate

Author : Yolanda L. Watson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000977226
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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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.

Catalog of Spelman College ...

Author : Spelman College
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Spelman College ... written by Spelman College and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Undaunted by the Fight

Author : Harry G. Lefever
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865549760
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (497 download)

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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.

Leaders of Their Race

Author : Sarah H. Case
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099842
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Leaders of Their Race written by Sarah H. Case and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African-American girls and young women, the other in Athens and attended by young white women with elite backgrounds. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, Case's analysis shows how race, gender, sexuality, and region worked within these institutions to shape education. Her comparative approach shines a particular light on how female education embodied the complex ways racial and gender identity functioned at the time. As she shows, the schools cultivated modesty and self-restraint to protect the students. Indeed, concerns about female sexuality and respectability united the schools despite their different student populations. Case also follows the lives of the women as adult teachers, alumnae, and activists who drew on their education to negotiate the New South's economic and social upheavals.

May We Forever Stand

Author : Imani Perry
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469638614
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book May We Forever Stand written by Imani Perry and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately as an anthem that captured the story and the aspirations of black Americans. Since the song's creation, it has been adopted by the NAACP and performed by countless artists in times of both crisis and celebration, cementing its place in African American life up through the present day. In this rich, poignant, and readable work, Imani Perry tells the story of the Black National Anthem as it traveled from South to North, from civil rights to black power, and from countless family reunions to Carnegie Hall and the Oval Office. Drawing on a wide array of sources, Perry uses "Lift Every Voice and Sing" as a window on the powerful ways African Americans have used music and culture to organize, mourn, challenge, and celebrate for more than a century.

Lucasville

Author : Staughton Lynd
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1604865350
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Lucasville written by Staughton Lynd and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2011-03-07 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucasville tells the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history. At the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, prisoners seized a major area of the prison on Easter Sunday, 1993. More than 400 prisoners held L block for eleven days. Nine prisoners alleged to have been informants, or “snitches,” and one hostage correctional officer, were murdered. There was a negotiated surrender. Thereafter, almost wholly on the basis of testimony by prisoner informants who received deals in exchange, five spokespersons or leaders were tried and sentenced to death, and more than a dozen others received long sentences. Lucasville examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during the eleven days, and the fairness of the trials. Particular emphasis is placed on the interracial character of the action, as evidenced in the slogans that were found painted on walls after the surrender: “Black and White Together,” “Convict Unity,” and “Convict Race.” An eloquent Foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal underlines these themes. He states, as does the book, that the men later sentenced to death “sought to minimize violence, and indeed, according to substantial evidence, saved the lives of several men, prisoner and guard alike.” Of the five men, three black and two white, who were sentenced to death, Mumia declares, “They rose above their status as prisoners, and became, for a few days in April 1993, what rebels in Attica had demanded a generation before them: men. As such, they did not betray each other; they did not dishonor each other; they reached beyond their prison ‘tribes’ to reach commonality.”

The Quiet Trailblazer

Author : Mary Frances Early
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820369519
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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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.

The Hub with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates

Author : Peter Adams
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319455980
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Hub with 2020 APA and 2021 MLA Updates written by Peter Adams and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). Success in college composition opens the door to future success in your college career and beyond. Make The Hub your destination for all of the support you need to succeed in college composition, whether it’s help with reading, writing, research, grammar, or even advice on balancing school, life, and work.

Howard Zinn's Southern Diary

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082035323X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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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.

The ABCs of HBCUs

Author : Claudia Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735643564
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book The ABCs of HBCUs written by Claudia Walker and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for the ride of your life, as The ABCs of HBCUs takes readers on a front-row, all-inclusive tour of Historically Black Colleges & Universities. The first ABC board book dedicated to HBCUs, children quickly recognize that "A" isn't always for "apple." From FAMU to Howard, the Divine Nine to Battle of the Bands, children learn about the love, lifestyles, and legacies that built these incredible institutions.

Faculty Diversity

Author : JoAnn Moody
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136647775
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Faculty Diversity written by JoAnn Moody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we see so little progress in diversifying faculty at America’s colleges, universities, and professional schools? This book explores this important question and provides steps for hastening faculty diversity. Drawing on her extensive consultant practice and expertise as well as research and scholarship from several fields, Dr. Moody provides practical and feasible ways to improve faculty recruitment, retention, and mentorship, especially of under-represented women in science-related fields and non-immigrant minorities in all fields. The second edition of Faculty Diversity offers new insights, strategies, and caveats to the current state of faculty diversity. This revised edition includes: New strategies to prevent unintended cognitive bias and errors that damage faculty recruitment and retention Expanded discussion on the importance of different cultural contexts, political, and historical experiences inhabited and inherited by non-immigrant faculty and students Increased testimonials and on-the-ground reflections from faculty, administrators, and leaders in higher education, with new attention to medical and other professional schools Updated Appendix with Discussion Scenarios and Practice Exercises useful to search and evaluation committees, department chairs, deans, faculty senates, and diversity councils Expanded chapter on mentoring that dispels myths about informal mentoring and underlines essential components for formal programs. Moody provides an essential, reliable, and eye-opening guide for colleges, medical, and other professional schools that are frustrated in their efforts to diversify their faculty.

Lion Woman's Legacy

Author : Arlene Voski Avakian
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558610521
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Lion Woman's Legacy written by Arlene Voski Avakian and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1992 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arlene Avakian's memoir evokes the quarrels, ambition, prejudice, and courage that shaped her coming of age in a family that immigrated to the United States to escape genocide in Turkey. Inspired by her passionate feminism and strengthened within a loving lesbian relationship, Avakian records and re-examines her personal history, discovering the story of her grandmother, which brings with it a legacy of radical politics and a powerful affirmation of ethnic identity.

Leaving Atlanta

Author : Tayari Jones
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446559652
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Atlanta written by Tayari Jones and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Oprah's Book Club Selection An American Marriage, here is a beautifully evocative novel that proves why Tayari Jones is "one of the most important voices of her generation" (Essence). It was the end of summer, a summer during the two-year nightmare in which Atlanta's African-American children were vanishing and twenty-nine would be found murdered by 1982. Here fifth-grade classmates Tasha Baxter, Rodney Green, and Octavia Harrison will discover back-to-school means facing everyday challenges in a new world of safety lessons, terrified parents, and constant fear. The moving story of their struggle to grow up-and survive- shimmers with the piercing, ineffable quality of childhood, as it captures all the hurts and little wins, the all-too-sudden changes, and the merciless, outside forces that can sweep the young into adulthood and forever shape their lives. PRAISE FOR TAYARI JONES "Tayari Jones is blessed with vision to see through to the surprising and devastating truths at the heart of ordinary lives, strength to wrest those truths free, and a gift of language to lay it all out, compelling and clear." -- Michael Chabon "Tayari Jones has emerged as one of the most important voices of her generation." -- Essence "One of America's finest writers." -- Nylon.com "Tayari Jones is a wonderful storyteller." -- Ploughsharesspan

Clean Getaway

Author : Nic Stone
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 1984893009
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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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.