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  2. Throughout their lives, the Rockefeller family continued to donate ten percent of their income to charity, including substantial donations to Spelman College, founded to educate Black women. Laura Spelman Rockefeller died on March 12, 1915, at age 75 of a heart attack, at the family estate Kykuit in Pocantico Hills, New York. Legacy

  3. She is the namesake of Spelman College, founded to educate black women in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial. Throughout their lives, the Rockefeller family continued to donate ten percent of their income to charity.

  4. She has been honored by the establishment of the 'Spelman College' that offers educational programs specifically for black women in Atlanta. Spelman and Rockefeller were devoted to each other throughout their lives.

  5. Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller was born on September 9, 1839, in Wadsworth, Ohio, the second of two daughters of Lucy Henry and Harvey Buel Spelman. The Spelmans later moved to Akron and to Cleveland, where Harvey prospered in the dry-goods business. He helped to establish a Congregational Church, was a member of the state legislature, and ...

  6. Jun 29, 2023 · A visionary educator, Sophia B. Packard, shared her dreams of educating Black girls and women at a school she’d begun a year earlier, modestly, with 11 students in a church basement. In the audience as she spoke sat John D. Rockefeller and his wife Laura Spelman Rockefeller.

  7. Name changes to Spelman Seminary in honor of Mrs. Laura Spelman Rockefeller and her parents Harvey Buel and Lucy Henry Spelman, longtime activists in the antislavery movement. 1885. Spelman students print first issue of the Spelman Messenger; Sophia Jones, M.D., first black female to join the faculty; 1886. Rockefeller Hall dedicated

  8. Sep 11, 2020 · By the 1930s, the GEB was one of two Rockefeller philanthropies working expressly on southern race issues (the other was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, founded in 1917).LSRM, Series 3.8, Appropriations – Interracial Relations, Rockefeller Archive Center.

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