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