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Hoy se la conoce como Spelman College, una universidad o universidad histórica de mujeres negras que lleva el nombre de la familia de Laura. La familia Spelman, los suegros de Rockefeller, junto con John Rockefeller fueron fervientes abolicionistas antes de la Guerra Civil y se dedicaron a apoyar las organizaciones que facilitaban la fuga de ...
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 assisted runaway slaves fleeing to Canada.
11 de sept. de 2020 · The Rockefeller Foundation and the Future of the GEB’s Southern Program. 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.
12 de jul. de 2004 · Laurance Spelman Rockefeller was born on May 26, 1910, at a time when the health of his grandmother Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller, known as Cettie, was beginning to fail.
23 de nov. de 2015 · Chasin was the great-granddaughter of Spelman’s founding philanthropic partners, John D. and Laura Spelman Rockefeller. Like her mother before her, Chasin served on Spelman's board of trustees. Following her exemplary tenure (1965-1990), Chasin was designated a life trustee of Spelman College, a distinction extended only to a small group of ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Laura Celestia Spelman Rockefeller, (September 9, 1839 - March 12, 1915), (known as Cettie), was a philanthropist, the namesake of Spelman College, founded to educate black women in the South, and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, and the wife of John D ...
Laura Spelman Rockefeller: Relatives: See Rockefeller family: Alta Rockefeller Prentice (April 12, 1871 – June 21, 1962) was an American philanthropist and socialite, daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. Early life.
