Dr. Charlotte Hawkins, forged friendships with Langston Hughes, W. E. B. DuBois, and Booker T. Washington to name a few. She was also the aunt of singer, Natalie Cole. The granddaughter of slaves, Dr. Charlotte Hawkins was born in 1883 in North Carolina. She founded the Palmer Memorial Institute, one of the first prep schools […]
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“It took me three winters on St. Simon’s to hear a single slave song, three times as many winters to see the religious dance called the ring-shout, still more winters to unearth the Buzzard Lope and similar solo dances, and the game songs known as ring-play…The secretiveness of the Negro is, I believe, the fundamental […]
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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” -Frederick Douglass Tweet
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