IN REMEMBRANCE: 7-5-2015

BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS

MARVA COLLINS, EDUCATOR WHO AIMED HIGH FOR POOR, BLACK STUDENTS

By SAM ROBERTS

JUNE 28, 2015

Marva Collins in 1983. In 1980, President-elect Ronald Reagan was said to be considering her for secretary of education.Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times

• 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…

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