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Putting Their Heads Together
Photo by North Carolina Central University/Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)/Getty Images
This black and white photo is from the camera of the African American photojournalist, North Carolina native, and civil rights activist Alexander McAllister Rivera, Jr.
(1913-2008).
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The image is packed with meaning that no caption accompanying it has yet conveyed.
It was taken sometime in 1952 in Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Hall on the campus of the Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute (AFPMI) in Sedalia, North Carolina.
We see two American educators, Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883-1961) and Alice Freeman Palmer (1855-1902). Brown, of African descent, is wearing a dark dress with white pearls, a corsage, and earrings. She stands near a rather bright white, over-life-size bust of Palmer, who had been her mentor and patron.
Both women are meticulously attired, and both were devoted to the cause of education.
As a young child, Brown m