Sunday, May 24, 2009

Did You Know Spelman College Was Not Named After a Black Woman?

Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller, (September 9, 1839March 12, 1915), (known as "Cettie"), was a philanthropist, the namesake of Spelman College and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and the wife of the founder of both Standard Oil and the Rockefeller family dynasty, John D. Rockefeller.

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