Charles N. Hunter, one of North Carolina's outstanding black reformers, was born a slave in Raleigh around 1851, and he lived there until his death in 1931. As

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"She stayed for over half a century. When the failing school was closed at the end of her first year, Brown remained to carry on. With virtually no resources sa