From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans

Caroline H. Pemberton's Campaign for School Board Member, 1897

Nellie Pepper's Campaign for County Superintendent of Schools, 1898

Pemberton, Caroline H.

Caroline H. Pemberton was elected to the School Board of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and served from 1897-1899. Pemberton was a wealthy Socialist, whose activism was in support of African-Americans, was mainly through her pen. She also serv…