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Jewel Plummer Cobb was born in Chicago on January 17, 1924 to Frank V. and Carriebel (Cole) Plummer. She is the great-granddaughter of a freed slave, granddaughter of a pharmacist and daughter of a physician and physical education and dance teacher. She matriculated in the University of Michigan in 1942, but, unsatisfied with segregated housing ...
27 de mar. de 2023 · Dr. Cobb was a distinguished professor and university administrator who conducted trailblazing cancer research, including studies that advanced the understanding of how skin cells that produce melanin become cancerous. But she was also deeply concerned about equity in American life. She called health care delivery “one of the tragedies in America.” In a 1989 book, I Dream a World ...
9 de feb. de 2023 · The Avenue East Cobb announces new restaurants, shops. February 9, 2023 6:56 PM by Wendy Parker. New renderings of The Avenue East Cobb’s dining space in the forthcoming “jewel boxes.”. Two new restaurants are coming to The Avenue East Cobb as part of a series of new lease signings as the retail center continues redevelopment.
13 de ene. de 2017 · Jewel Plummer Cobb, the president of Cal State Fullerton during a time of unprecedented growth in the 1980s and one of the first African American women to oversee a major university in the western ...
Jewel Plummer Cobb encountered some covert racism growing up in a prosperous middle class African-American community in Chicago, but it was when she entered college that she came face to face with the ugly realities of segregation. After being forced to live in segregated housing at the University of Michigan for three semesters, Jewel transferred in protest to the historically black Talladega ...
1 de ene. de 2017 · Dr. Cobb is survived by her son, Roy Jonathan Cobb; granddaughter, Jordan; and daughter-in-law Suzzanne Douglas. Services are pending. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Jewel Plummer Cobb Scholarship Endowment, payable to the Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation, Account #92010. Mail to 2600 Nutwood Ave., Suite 850, Fullerton, CA 92831. January 1, 2017
