Spelman College opened in Atlanta, Georgia, as a seminary for Black women, originally founded by Sophia Packard and Harriet Giles with support from the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Backed financially by the Rockefeller family, it quickly grew into a prestigious institution for higher learning. Nicknamed the “Radcliffe and the Sarah Lawrence of Negro education,” Spelman became a symbol of academic excellence and empowerment for African American women in the post-Reconstruction era.
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