On December 29, 1883, SOPHIA B. PACKARD wrote a long letter to John D. Rockefeller requesting further support for the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, a school for African-American women that she had founded along with Harriet Giles. She reported that the students "count. . . no sacrifice too great if only they can be permitted to learn of Christ and His word. They do not like to lose one day even, so earnest were they as to petition us to suspend our school exercises only on the 25th [of December], when it was expected we should have the same recess of ten days as the other Institutions throughout the city." Sustained by Rockefeller funding, the school eventually became SPELMAN COLLEGE. View original letter Read Transcript of letter
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