Educator, college president, civil rights activist
Parent(s)
Clarence C. Player Beatrice Day Player
Relatives
Edith Player Brown (sister) Linda Beatrice Brown (niece)
Willa Beatrice Player (August 9, 1909 – August 29, 2003) was an American educator, college administrator, college president, civil rights activist, and federal appointee.[1][2] Player was the first African-American woman to become president of a four-year, fully accredited liberal arts college when she took the position at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina.[3]
In her career at Bennett College, Player had served as a teacher and then in progressively responsible administrator positions. From 1955 to 1966, Player served as president of the historically black college, during a period of heightened civil rights activism in the South. She supported Bennett students who took part in the lengthy sit-ins started by the Greensboro Four to achieve integration of lunch counters in downtown stores.[4]
Player had a strong education, earning a BA degree from Ohio Wesleyan College, a Master's from Oberlin College, a Certificat d'Études at University of Grenoble in France, and a PhD from Columbia University. After leaving the Bennett presidency, Player was appointed in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson as the first female Director of the Division of College Support in the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, serving until 1986.
^George Alexander Sewell; Margaret L. Dwight (January 20, 2012). Mississippi Black History Makers. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 229–. ISBN 978-1-61703-428-2.
^"Willa Player, 94, Pioneer Black Educator". The New York Times. 2003-08-30. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
^Jones, Jae (2023-10-04). "Dr. Willa B. Player: First Black Woman President of a Fully-Accredited Liberal Arts College". Black Then. Retrieved 2024-03-29.
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money for the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, attended by several Reds players. In 1981, Schott bought a minority interest in the Reds as part of a group...
estranged from Hayden, Fonda had a seven-month relationship with soccer player Lorenzo Caccialanza. She was linked with actor Rob Lowe that same year....
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more to the story when a web of lies and infidelity are revealed. 568 7 "Willa Blanc" August 28, 2022 (2022-08-28) A retired nuclear physicist is reported...
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Married (2014–2015), in which she and Nat Faxon played a long-married couple. Willa Paskin of Slate praised Greer's chemistry with Faxon, referring to them...
Belmont. She later appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, being cast as a chorus girl or in similar roles...
private, long-term relationship with former Women's Tennis Association player Tam O'Shaughnessy, she is the first astronaut known to have been LGBT. She...
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original series. In September 2012, she was cast as the adult version of Willa in the film adaptation of the novel Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. The film...
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