Charlotte Hawkins Brown

Life and Orange County connections

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1. late 1919 Charlotte Hawkins Brown starts the clubwomen's drive for a home for delinquent Black girls As president of the North Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown of Palmer Memorial Institute began a public campaign in late 1919 for a reformatory for Black girls, the same year the legislature set up juvenile courts. The drive led to the Efland Home in western Orange County. People: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Place: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), 201 Redman Crossing, EflandSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 12
2. July 16, 1921 Black clubwomen buy the Forrest farm at Efland for their home for girls The North Carolina federation of Black women's clubs, led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, bought the 143-acre farm of S. C. and Carrie Forrest at Efland as the site of its industrial home for Black girls. Plans for the first building were drawn that September, and the federation deeded the land to the home's trustees on August 3, 1922. People: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Place: Efland Home site, EflandSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls National Register nomination (2018), sec. 8
3. September 1921 Plans are drawn for the first cottage of the Efland Home In a letter of September 5, 1921, to state welfare commissioner Kate Burr Johnson, Charlotte Hawkins Brown reported that plans were under way for a cottage at the Efland site estimated at $5,000. The architect is not known, but the finished building follows a professional drawing except for its weatherboard walls, which replaced brick to save money. People: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Place: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), 201 Redman Crossing, Efland · Also named: Kate Burr JohnsonSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 15
4. November 1922 Black clubwomen sell two-cent stamps across the state to build the first cottage at Efland The state federation of Black women's clubs, led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown, sold two-cent stamps across the state in November 1922 to raise $5,000 for the first cottage of the North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls at Efland, on land it had bought the year before. People: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Place: Efland Home site, EflandSearch the index · DigitalNC: Twin City Sentinel (Winston-Salem), November 4, 1922, p. 5 · Also: DigitalNC newspaper, July 25, 1922, p. 7
5. 1924 UNC and the state welfare board win a Rockefeller grant for Black welfare work In 1924 the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare and the University of North Carolina received a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial grant for a demonstration program in Black welfare, which opened on January 1, 1925, as the board's Division of Negro Work under Lawrence A. Oxley. Charlotte Hawkins Brown sat on its advisory commission, and Oxley visited the Efland Home. People: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Also named: Lawrence A. Oxley · Also mentions: Efland HomeSearch the index · NC State Historic Preservation Office: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home), National Register nomination (OR2815), p. 24
6. 1925 Black clubwomen open the North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls at Efland After years of fundraising, the North Carolina federation of Black women's clubs led by Charlotte Hawkins Brown opened a home and school for Black girls on a 143-acre farm on US 70 at Efland. The state gave only occasional small grants; the federation's board voted in October 1938 to close within five months, and the home closed on March 15, 1939. The state later opened a training school for Black girls, first at Rocky Mount and then at Dobbs Farm near Kinston. People: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Place: EflandSearch the index · DigitalNC: Africo-American Presbyterian, October 22, 1925, p. 2 · Also: Open Orange: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls; The Carolina Times, March 30, 1940, p. 8; The Carolina Times, August 17, 1940, p. 1; The Carolina Times, November 11, 1939, p. 3; NC State Historic Preservation Office: Efland Home nomination