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  1. Early life. Charlotte Hawkins Brown was born in Henderson, North Carolina, on June 11, 1883, to Caroline Frances and an estranged father. The granddaughter of former slaves, [2] she was born in a time where large numbers of African Americans were moving north. She moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, at a young age, where she was raised and educated.

  2. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, a pioneer in education and race relations, was born on a farm near Henderson. She was the granddaughter of an enslaved person. Her mother, Caroline Frances Hawkins, moved to Cambridge, Mass., when Charlotte was a small child; there she married Edmund Hawkins, a brick mason. A precocious child, Charlotte Hawkins ...

  3. Mar 6, 2007 · Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown. Fair use image. Born Lottie Hawkins in Henderson, North Carolina, in 1883, her family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, early in her childhood to avoid racial discrimination in their home state.

  4. Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883 – 1961) In 1883, Lottie Hawkins was born in Henderson, North Carolina. Her family later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she attended Allston Grammar School, Cambridge English High School, and Salem State Normal School.

  5. Charlotte Hawkins Brown was its founder and leader for 50 of those years. She was born in Henderson in 1883 to descendants of enslaved people. In 1888 her family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston, to escape Jim Crow and Segregationist practices of the South and for better social, economic, and educational opportunities.

  6. Charlotte Hawkins Brown was born in Henderson, North Carolina, on June 11, 1883, to Caroline Frances and an estranged father. The granddaughter of former slaves, she was born in a time where large numbers of African Americans were moving north. She moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, at a young age, where she was raised and educated.

  7. historicsites.nc.gov › all-sites › charlotte-hawkinsEarly Life | NC Historic Sites

    Well might this have been said of Charlotte Hawkins Brown, founder and principal of the Palmer Memorial Institute, at Sedalia, North Carolina, a quiet rural village consisting of fifty or more families, mostly African American, ten miles east of Greensboro.

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