Alice freeman 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.

The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, better known as Palmer Memorial Institute, was a school for upper-class African Americans.

The Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, better known as Palmer Memorial Institute, was a school for upper-class African Americans.

Palmer Memorial Institute, located between Greensboro and Burlington, was founded in by educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown as the Alice Freeman Palmer.

The institute was named after Alice Freeman Palmer, former president of Wellesley College and benefactor of Dr. Brown.

Palmer Memorial Institute was named after Alice Freeman Palmer, former president of Wellesley College and benefactor of Dr. Brown, who died on this date.

The Alice Freeman Palmer building became the heart of campus.

It was founded in 1902 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 1970s, a fully accredited, nationally recognized preparatory school.

More than 1,000 African American students attended the school between 1902 and 1970.

Bennett College purchased the Palmer campus, but in 1980 it sold 40 acres (160,000 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 d