The educational legacy of a Black boarding school and the woman who made it all possible
The town of Sedalia in Guilford County may be small, but it has an outsized impact when it comes to its educational legacy.
Palmer Memorial Institute
An Educational Legacy: The Persistence Of Charlotte Hawkins Brown
At the turn of the 20th Century, a 19-year-old African-American woman from Henderson, N.C., began building a school – the Palmer Memorial Institute – that would educate more than 1,000 black youth.