The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Johnnetta Betsch Cole

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Johnnetta Betsch Cole

2/11/2019

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2019.016

College president, museum director and civic leader Johnnetta Betsch Cole (1936 - ) became the first African American female president of Spelman College in 1987 before being named director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in 2009. Cole was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 2/11/2019, in Washington, D.C., D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 15; Total Run Time: 07h 23m 18s

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Cole, Johnnetta B.

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College president, museum director and civic leader Johnnetta Betsch Cole was born on October 19, 1936 in Jacksonville, Florida to John Thomas and Mary Frances Lewis Betsch. She was admitted to Fisk University at the age of fifteen, and later transferred to Oberlin College where she received her B.A. degree in sociology in 1957. Cole earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from Northwestern University in 1959 and 1967.In 1970, Cole accepted a faculty position at the University of Massa...