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Charlotte Hawkins Brown (June 11, 1883 - January 11, 1961) was an American educator and academic.
Born Lottie Hawkins in Henderson, North Carolina, in the late 1880s her family moved north to settle in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An exceptional student in a very white world, during her senior year of high school, Alice Freeman Palmer, a former Wellesley College president, provided financial support to enable her to further her education at the State Normal School in Salem.
Read more about Charlotte Hawkins Brown, free from the State Library of North Carolina.
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