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Brown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961

LC control no.n 87916218
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3503.R793
Personal name headingBrown, Charlotte Hawkins, 1883-1961
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Variant(s)Brown, Charlotte (Hawkins), Mrs., 1883-
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedNorth Carolina Cambridge (Mass.) Sedalia (N.C.)
Birth date1883-06-11
Death date1961-01-11
Place of birthHenderson (N.C.)
Place of deathGreensboro (N.C.)
AffiliationPalmer Memorial Institute (Sedalia, N.C.)
Profession or occupationTeachers Civil rights workers Authors
Found inCharlotte Hawkins Brown birthday commemoration ... 1984: p. 4 of cover (Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, June 11, 1883-January 11, 1961)
LC data base, 7/2/87 (hdg.: Brown, Charlotte (Hawkins), Mrs., 1883- ; usage: Charlotte Hawkins Brown)
McCluskey, A.T. Forgotten sisterhood, 2014: page 73 (Palmer Memorial Institute closed in 1971 ... founded in 1902 in rural North Carolina by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, 1883-1961, and outliving her by a decade, the school became an exemplar of black middle-class aspriations)
African American women, 1993: pages 63-66 (Charlotte Hawkins Brown, one of the South's best known educators and activists in the first half of the twentieth century, born in Henderson, N.C. Family moved to Cambridge, Mass. where she attended Massachusetts State Normal School at Salem, and later, Wellesley College, Harvard University and Simmons college. Returned to North Carolina as a teacher in 1901 in Sedalia. She renamed the school the Palmer Memorial Institute in honor of Alice Freedman Palmer. Died in Greensboro.)
Associated languageeng