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Palmer Memorial Institute Graduating Class of 1916 - Sedalia, NC
Photograph source: N_83_12_6 - From the General Negatives, State Archives of NC.
Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Palmer Institute, Sedalia, NC.
The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, better known as Palmer Memorial Institute, was a boarding school for upper class African Americans. 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.
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