Johnnetta Cole: National Humanities Medal Recipient, OC '57 – The Oberlin Review

Johnnetta B. Cole, OC ’57, is an anthropologist and educator who received the 2021 National Humanities Medal earlier this year. After graduating from Oberlin, where she earned a degree in Sociology, she became the first female African-American president of Spelman College and co-founded the Black Studies program at Washington State University.  This article has been...

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