Women Builders
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1882–1961) was born in Henderson,
North Carolina, but grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a young child,
Brown was a gifted speaker and a leader in her church. She returned to North
Carolina to teach school, and worked hard to raise money to start her own
school in Sedalia. The first building of her school, which she named the Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, was constructed in 1904. You can see this red building
with white columns just below and to the right of Brown's in Johnson's painting.
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