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The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, better known as Palmer Memorial Institute, was a school for upper-class African Americans. It was founded in 1902 by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown at Sedalia, North Carolina near Greensboro.
- Barton, Harry; Hartmann, Charles C.
- 1901
- Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, I-house
- Along US 70 W of jct. with NC 3056, Sedalia, North Carolina
Founded in 1902 by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Palmer Memorial Institute transformed the lives of nearly 2,000 African American students. Today, the campus provides the setting where visitors can explore the place where boys and girls lived and learned during the greater part of the 20th century.
The Palmer Institute reopened in 1987 as the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Memorial State Historic site. It is the only North Carolina state historic site dedicated to the achievements of an African American and the accomplishments of a woman.
The Palmer Memorial Institute, located between Greensboro and Burlington, was founded in 1902 by educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown as the Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute. Brown served as the school's president for 50 years.
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Palmer Memorial Institute (PMI), located east of Greensboro, began in 1902 as a rural African American school and succeeded as a unique private school, for more than 60 years. Dr. 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...
After a year of junior college, Brown accepted a 25-dollar-a-month job from the American Missionary Association (AMA) and returned to her home state of North Carolina to teach poor, rural Black students. She arrived at a one room school at the Bethany Community Church in Sedalia in 1901. Her desire to help southern African Americans drove her to be...
By 1915 Palmer had gained support from national figures such as educational leader Booker T. Washington, Harvard University president Charles William Eliot, and Boston philanthropists Carrie and Galen Stone. After a major fire destroyed two of six main buildings in 1917, Brown's determination to raise enough money to offset the loss prevented the s...
Dr. Brown was not the only Black woman educator creating schools and excelling during her lifetime. Two Black women contemporaries who would become close friends of hers were Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune and Nannie Helen Burroughs. Together, these three women were known as the "Three Bs of Education." The Three Bs believed in combining a holistic triang...
Wilhelmina M. Crosson (1900-1991) was the second president of Palmer Memorial Institute. Born in Warrenton, NC she moved with her parents to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1906, where she became an excellent student and was a star player on her school's basketball team. As a teacher, Ms. Crosson observed how her mostly Italian immigrant students learned...
Founded in 1902 by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Palmer Memorial Institute transformed the lives of more than 1,000 African American students. Today, restored campus buildings provide the setting for a unique educational experience with original and period furnishings, exhibits with artifacts and photographs.
Mar 19, 2007 · The museum, established to recognize the contributions Hawkins had made in African American education, became North Carolina’s first African American state historic site. Today the museum features exhibits, tours of historic structures and audiovisual presentations.
