Spelman College is a historically Black, liberal arts college for women in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1881 in the basement of Friendship Baptist Church by Sophia B. Packard and Harriet E. Giles. Spelman is the nation's leading historically Black women's college and consistently ranks among the top liberal arts colleges in the United States. The college is a member of the Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUC), one of the most storied clusters of Black colleges in the world, allowing Spelman students cross-registration access at neighboring Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University, and…
