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Charlotte Everett Hopkins
1851–1935
A driven reformer in Washington, D.C., she spent decades working to improve care for people with chronic illness and to push for better living conditions for working families. Her writing, including a late-19th-century report on Black women in the South, reflects the same practical, reform-minded spirit.
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A Report Concerning the Colored Women of the South
by Elizabeth Christophers Kimball Hobson, Charlotte Everett Hopkins
About the author
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1851, Charlotte Everett Wise Hopkins became known as an American philanthropist and social reformer. She is especially associated with Washington, D.C., where she served for more than forty years as president of the Home for Incurables.
Hopkins was active in civic and social-welfare work and appears in archival collections tied to reform efforts in the capital. She is also remembered as a co-author of A Report Concerning the Colored Women of the South, a work that shows her interest in documenting social conditions as part of broader reform efforts.
She died in 1935. Although she is not widely known today as a literary figure, her surviving publications and records present her as an energetic organizer whose public work joined advocacy, investigation, and institution-building.