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Poet Maya Angelou at Spelman College in Atlanta: "Congratulations to you. You are phenomenal. The reason you are phenomenal is because you come from a phenomenal people. When you get into the marketplace, whether it is the academic world or the industrial, or business, corporate or the arts, it is wise to remember where you come from. And then you can use your past as the mirror so that you can see yourself. You have come well from a very healthy, a lusty people, a people loving life and loving love. When you need to see yourself, you must...
...after its inception in 1980, and members credit him with raising corporate funds that are traditionally difficult to obtain and securing a $2.7 million annual grant from AID. "Federal funds hang by a thread and corporate sponsors are not easy to find," says Donald Stewart, president of predominantly Black Spelman College and a member of the SAEP board. "Bok has been very helpful in getting that kind of support...
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of New York at Spelman College in Atlanta: "I know only too well how that double burden [of being a black and a woman] can clip the wings of a soaring spirit. For far too many females, home is still-as George Bernard Shaw noted-'the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse'; and far too often, the office or factory is no better for those women who work outside the home. To your special burdens of race and gender are also added the serious problems facing our entire nation...
Tuskegee Institute celebrated its 100th birthday this year. So did Spelman, a selective women's college in Atlanta that encourages black women to prepare for high-flying careers with demanding majors in premed, pre-law and computer sciences. Both schools are now getting second-and third-generation students. Partly because the older private schools were the only places where students could get an advanced education, such colleges produced most of the black leaders in America. Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, as did Georgia State Senator Julian Bond. Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and Novelist Toni...
Meanwhile, under the impetus of affirmative action, bright black students were being lured away from predominantly black private colleges, even such celebrated places as Fisk, Morehouse, Tuskegee Institute, Howard University and Spelman College. While the number of black college students more than tripled in the past two decades, the percentage enrolled in black colleges dropped from 82% in 1965 to about 28% in 1981. Now, inflation and the Reagan clampdown on student aid are striking hardest at black private colleges with tiny endowments and at students whose parents have roughly half the income of white parents. Even worse, black colleges...