“If you had been deprived of an education in your early youth; if then you had run away from home to obtain that education”
About Charles Frederick White
1876–1955
Born in 1876 amid the lingering shadows of slavery in Tennessee, Charles Frederick White entered a world still scarred by the chains his parents had worn. The oldest of ten children born to formerly enslaved parents, he carried the weight of their hard-won freedom from the very beginning. His family soon migrated…