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Palmer Memorial Institute
Historic school building in North Carolina, United States
United States historic place
The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, better known as Palmer Memorial Institute, was a school for upper-class African Americans. It was founded in by Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown at Sedalia, North Carolina near Greensboro. The institute was named after Alice Freeman Palmer, former president of Wellesley College and benefactor of Dr. Brown.
It became, before its closure in the s, a fully accredited, nationally recognized preparatory school. More than 1, African American students attended the school between and
Bennett College purchased the Palmer campus, but in it sold 40 acres (,&#;m2) of the main campus with major surviving buildings to the American Muslim Mission. The Muslims, who belong to the community which followed, Imam Warith Deen Mohammed; tried to establish a teacher's college but abandoned this project due to the bad condition of the campus.
In late , Maria Cole, a niece of Dr. Brown's and widow of late singer Nat King Cole, and friend Marie Gibbs of Greensboro began an effort to obtain recognition of Dr. Brown's social and educational contributions, specifically in regard to Palmer Memorial Institute. Both women, who were former st
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Date:April 7,The Palmer Memorial Institute is a traveling exhibition of documentary photographs and audio from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The Palmer Memorial Institute was an African American preparatory school attended by more than 1, students from until it closed in
The exhibition includes black-and-white photographs of student life at Palmer Memorial Institute, circa , by Griff Davis, an accomplished African American photojournalist whose work appeared in the New York Times, Atlanta Daily World, Ebony, Time, Fortune, and Negro Digest. Davis's work depicts an often-neglected piece of American history — that of middle and upper middle class African Americans.
The exhibit also includes Davis's Ebony magazine spread on PMI, text panels, and an audio documentary including interviews with Palmer Memorial Institute graduates.
The exhibition provides the opportunity for dialogue about segregation in education, black women's leadership and business development, the complexity of economic and educational standing of African Americans in the South during the Jim Crow e
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