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Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do
Wadelington, Charles W.; Knapp, Richard F.
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paperback. This biography of Charlotte Hawkins Brown tells how she arrived in Guilford County in 1901, black, single and 18 years old, to begin a job as a teacher at a small school for African Americans and how, when the school was closed, she founded the Palmer Memorial Institute for African Americans. Num Pages: 320 pages, 65 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; BG; JFSL1; JNSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
In the fall of 1901, Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961) jumped off a Southern Railway train in the unfamiliar backwoods of Guilford County, North Carolina. She was black, single, and barely eighteen years old and had come alone from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to begin her first real job as a teacher at a small, struggling school for African Americans. She stayed for over half a century. When the failing school was closed at the end of her first year, Brown remained to carry on. With virtually no resources save her own energy and determination, she founded Palmer Memorial Institute, which she would ... Read more
In the fall of 1901, Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961) jumped off a Southern Railway train in the unfamiliar backwoods of Guilford County, North Carolina. She was black, single, and barely eighteen years old and had come alone from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to begin her first real job as a teacher at a small, struggling school for African Americans. She stayed for over half a century. When the failing school was closed at the end of her first year, Brown remained to carry on. With virtually no resources save her own energy and determination, she founded Palmer Memorial Institute, which she would ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807847947
SKU
V9780807847947
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About Wadelington, Charles W.; Knapp, Richard F.
Charles W. Wadelington is associated with the Historic Sites Section of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resourcesand is minority interpretations specialist.|Richard F. Knapp is associated with the Historic Sites Section of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. and is curator of research.
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