[Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural School, St. Helena, South Carolina. : Pamphlet box.]. [1900?-1937]
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Penn School (Saint Helena Island, S.C.)
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The Penn School on Saint Helena Island, S.C., was founded during the Civil War by northern philanthropists and missionaries for former plantation slaves in an area occupied by the United States Army. Over the years, with continuing philanthropic support, it served as school, health agency, and cooperative society for rural African Americans of the Sea Islands. The first principals were Laura M. Towne and Ellen Murray, followed around 1908 by Rossa B. Cooley and Grace B. House, and in 1944 by How...
