Spelman college: A place all their own

Challenged by Coeducation: Women's Colleges Since the 1960s

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 234-256

  Graham, Frances D ^a   Poulson, Susan L ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON   (United States)

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