Sedalia and the Palmer Memorial Institute

Sedalia and the Palmer Memorial Institute
Author: Tracey Burns-Vann
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738516448

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 a small school in eastern Guilford County. The school closed in 1902, and at the request of the local residents, Brown remained and opened the Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, which in later years became a world renowned African-American preparatory school that educated children from the wealthiest families in the United States and six foreign nations. Sedalia and the Palmer Memorial Institute traces the growth and development of a rural Southern community that made an impact on the nation.

Charlotte Hawkins Brown & Palmer Memorial Institute

Charlotte Hawkins Brown & Palmer Memorial Institute
Author: Charles Weldon Wadelington
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780807847947

"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 save her own energy and determination, she founded Palmer Memorial Institute, a private secondary school for African Americans. In the fifty years during which she led the school, Brown built Palmer up to become one of the premier academies for African American children in the nation. Of the hundreds of African American schools operating in North Carolina around 1900, only Palmer gained national renown, outlasting virtually every other such school."--BOOK JACKET.

Charlotte Hawkins Brown

Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Author: Diane Silcox-Jarrett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1995
Genre: African American college administrators
ISBN:

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 Institute that survived for 70 years.

Black Picket Fences

Black Picket Fences
Author: Mary Pattillo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022602122X

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.

Mammy; an Appeal to the Heart of the South

Mammy; an Appeal to the Heart of the South
Author: Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781016504737

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Encyclopedia of North Carolina

Encyclopedia of North Carolina
Author: William S. Powell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1338
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

An informative compendium, the Encyclopedia of North Carolina is abundantly illustrated with nearly 400 photographs and maps."--BOOK JACKET.

Founding Mothers and Others

Founding Mothers and Others
Author: A. Sadovnik
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2016-04-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137054751

Interest in progressive education and feminist pedagogy has gained a significant following in current educational reform circles. Founding Mothers and Others examines the female founders of progressive schools and other female educational leaders in the early twentieth century and their schools or educational movements. All of the women led remarkable lives and their legacies are embedded in education today. The book examines the lessons to be learned from their work and their lives. The book also analyzes whether their leadership styles support contemporary feminist theories of leadership that argue women administrators tend to be more inclusive, democratic, and caring than male administrators. Through an examination of these women, this book looks critically at the ways in which the leaders' administrative styles and behaviors lend support to feminist claims.

Durham's Hayti

Durham's Hayti
Author: Andre D. Vann
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738567358

Durham is a progressive New South city, one in which both the white and black populations have economically and culturally prospered over the past century. Durham's Hayti opens a door into the community's past that will allow you to walk down familiar streets into a time that may seem distant, but is not that far removed, and to experience the full life of Hayti, from its churches and schools to its businesses and recreational pursuits.

African American Historic Places

African American Historic Places
Author: National Register of Historic Places
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1995-07-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780471143451

Culled from the records of the National Register of Historic Places, a roster of all types of significant properties across the United States, African American Historic Places includes over 800 places in 42 states and two U.S. territories that have played a role in black American history. Banks, cemeteries, clubs, colleges, forts, homes, hospitals, schools, and shops are but a few of the types of sites explored in this volume, which is an invaluable reference guide for researchers, historians, preservationists, and anyone interested in African American culture. Also included are eight insightful essays on the African American experience, from migration to the role of women, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. The authors represent academia, museums, historic preservation, and politics, and utilize the listed properties to vividly illustrate the role of communities and women, the forces of migration, the influence of the arts and heritage preservation, and the struggles for freedom and civil rights. Together they lead to a better understanding of the contributions of African Americans to American history. They illustrate the events and people, the designs and achievements that define African American history. And they pay powerful tribute to the spirit of black America.