Graduating Class of 1933, Palmer Institute, Sedalia, NC.

The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, better known as Palmer Memorial Institute, was a school for African Americans during Jim-Jane Crow era. It was founded in 1902 by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown at Sedalia, North Carolina near Greensboro.

Palmer Memorial Institute was named after Alice Freeman Palmer, former president of Wellesley College and benefactor of Dr. Brown. The Palmer Campus is now a Historic Site under the State of NC.

Source: State Archives NC- From the General Negatives,