Palmer Memorial Institute

Education

The educational legacy of a Black boarding school and the woman who made it all possible

Bethany Chafin

The town of Sedalia in Guilford County may be small, but it has an outsized impact when it comes to its educational legacy. Nestled along NC 70, between…
Education

An Educational Legacy: The Persistence Of Charlotte Hawkins Brown

Bethany Chafin

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…