"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 sa

Sedalia, North Carolina, has a rich and diverse history. In 1901, the American Missionary Association hired a young woman, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, to teach at

Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie

"Lynchings and beatings by night. Demeaning treatment by day. A life of crushing subordination for Southern blacks maintained by white supremacist laws and cust

Eighteen-year old Charlotte Hawkins arrived in North Carolina in 1901 to teach a rural black school. When told to move on, she opened the Palmer Memorial Instit