Sophia B. Packard Biography

Sophia B. Packard biography

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NAME: Sophia B. Packard
OCCUPATION: Educator
BIRTH DATE: January 03, 1824
DEATH DATE: June 21, 1891
EDUCATION: Female Seminary of Charlestown, Massachusetts
PLACE OF BIRTH: New Salem, Massachusetts
PLACE OF DEATH: Washington, D.C.

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Sophia B. Packard was an American educator, cofounder in Atlanta, Georgia, of a school for African American women that would eventually become Spelman College.

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Sophia B. Packard was an American educator. After years of teaching, she toured the South and decided to open a school for African American women and girls in Georgia. In 1881 she and her partner opened a school in a church basement. John D. Rockefeller was so impressed with her vision that he supported the school by paying for a new building. Packard's school eventually become Spelman College.