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Thread started 10/13/16 8:57am

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Marva Collins, Prince educator, dies at 78 (featured in TMBGITW vid) (Edited - misread old story)

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Marva Collins, a former substitute teacher whose success at educating poor black students in a private school she founded made her a candidate for secretary of education and the subject of a television movie, died on Wednesday in a hospice near her home in South Carolina. She was 78.


Her death was confirmed by Hospice Care of the Lowcountry in Bluffton, S.C.


After working as a substitute teacher for 14 years in Chicago public schools, Ms. Collins cashed in her $5,000 in pension savings and opened Westside Preparatory School in 1975. The school originally operated in the basement of a local college and then, to be free of red tape (the same reason she said she had refused federal funds), in the second floor of her home.


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An article about the school in 1977 in The Chicago Sun-Times attracted national attention. She was later the subject of a “60 Minutes” segment and of “The Marva Collins Story,” a 1981 television movie on CBS with Cicely Tyson playing Ms. Collins and Morgan Freeman as her husband. She even appeared briefly in a video for Prince’s song “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World.”

[Edited 10/15/16 0:14am]

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #1 posted 10/13/16 10:35am

domainator2010

That's really sad! sad I remember her in the video.... sad
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Reply #2 posted 10/13/16 10:43am

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Reply #3 posted 10/13/16 11:03am

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"We just let people talk & say whatever they want 2 say. 9 times out of 10, trust me, what's out there now, I wouldn't give nary one of these folks the time of day. That's why I don't say anything back, because there's so much that's wrong" - P, Dec '15
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Reply #4 posted 10/13/16 12:18pm

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how sad rose they both died in the same year

RIP Prince I will forever heart and miss U
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Reply #5 posted 10/13/16 1:21pm

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Reply #6 posted 10/13/16 7:10pm

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So sad.
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Reply #7 posted 10/13/16 7:10pm

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So sad.
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Reply #8 posted 10/14/16 9:40pm

FlyOnTheWall

Sad, indeed; however, Mrs. Collins died over a year ago.

http://www.chicagotribune...tory.html

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FlyOnTheWall said:

Sad, indeed; however, Mrs. Collins died over a year ago.

http://www.chicagotribune...tory.html


You know, you're right of course. And I'm not sure why this popped up in my feeds as new news. Hmmm, oh well. Live & learn.

Sorry, it's the Hodgkin's talking.
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Reply #10 posted 10/15/16 4:13pm

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TrivialPursuit said:

FlyOnTheWall said:

Sad, indeed; however, Mrs. Collins died over a year ago.

http://www.chicagotribune...tory.html


You know, you're right of course. And I'm not sure why this popped up in my feeds as new news. Hmmm, oh well. Live & learn.

No worries. It happens to the best of us. She was a lovely soul. I wonder how he found her. Prince was really about using his wealth to improve the life chances of "the least of these" in this world.

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