Spelman College Ambassador Update

This week has been a bit hectic. Our campus had class registration this week, and due to some faults in the register, some meetings I had with professors got canceled. I was supposed to meet with my judges this week and see where we are with determining the top three winners, but our meeting was pushed back due to the events I mentioned in the beginning. I was able to do some more updating to my Instagram page for Founders Week here at Spelman College. I have also sent a couple of emails to some organizations I still want to present to before the year ends. That includes the History Club, who, in the beginning, had a lot of conflicts with getting a scheduled meeting together. I have started gathering a good handful of clips for our last blog post; I want to discuss the Black Power Movement in the 1970s. I have always been attracted to this study area due to the “seeming” unity many African Americans had with each other.

I found this clip in the archive that I thought would be good to share, one done by Russell Adams, an African American studies Professor at Howard University. He discusses how, post-civil war, a boom in black created spaces such as colleges and churches. My only issue with his clip is that he gets Spelman’s founding year incorrect. We were founded in 1881, not 1882.

I also started doing Instagram posts dedicated to the different Spelman presidents this week. I have been able to find our president from the 7th (Johnnetta B. Cole, even though it seems she doesn’t have an interview) all the way to our current president Dr. Helena Gayle. I am on Audrey Manley and will continue until I get to Dr. Gayle’s interview.