Tayari's Blog: Happy Birthday Spelman

Posted by TayariJones on April 11, 2008 12:57 PM
Filed under Current Events

127 years ago today, Harriet Giles and Sophia B. Packard founded The Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, later renamed Spelman College. Giles and Packard had only one hundred dollars to their names--- pocket change given to them by John D. Rockefeller. Reverend Quarles gave them space in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church and they gathered eleven students together and got to work.

(Image via flickr.)

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