Record #:

4699

Author(s):

Hoffman, Lydia Charles

Abstract:

Fresh from her studies at Cambridge, Massachusetts's prestigious English High School, Charlotte Hawkins Brown returned to North Carolina in 1902 to found a unique private school for Afro-Americans in Sedalia near Greensboro. She was 19, and the school was the Palmer Memorial Institute. It became her life's work, as over the next fifty years, Brown developed the school into one of the nation's premier boarding schools for Afro-Americans.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 39 Issue 2, Spring 2000, p15-17, por

Subject(s):

Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961; African Americans--Education; African American teachers--Sedalia

Record #:

3816

Author(s):

Arthur, Billy

Abstract:

In Sedalia in 1902, Charlotte Hawkins Brown founded a unique private school for Afro-Americans, the Palmer Memorial Institute. She was 19. It became one of the finest schools for Afro-Americans in the nation. In 1987, it was designated a state historic site, the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 66 Issue 3, Aug 1998, p18-20, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961; African Americans--Education; African American teachers--Sedalia; Historic sites--Sedalia

Record #:

2778

Author(s):

Stewart, Alva

Abstract:

The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial State Historic Site in Sedalia is the first to honor a black person and the first to honor a woman. Brown founded Palmer Memorial Institute and led it for fifty years.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 55 Issue 9, Feb 1988, p24-27

Subject(s):

Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961; African Americans--Education; African American teachers--Sedalia; Historic sites--Sedalia