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Charlotte Everett Hopkins
1851–1935
A prominent Washington, D.C., philanthropist and social reformer, she devoted decades to hospital, civic, and welfare work while helping lead women’s organizations in the capital. Her life offers a window into the world of public service and reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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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, on June 7, 1851, Charlotte Everett Wise Hopkins became known for a long career in charitable and civic work in Washington, D.C. She married Archibald Hopkins and was active in public life at a time when women’s clubs and reform organizations were becoming a major force in American cities.
She is especially remembered for her leadership of the Home for Incurables in Washington, where she served as president for more than forty years. She was also involved with the National Civic Federation’s Woman’s Department and other reform-minded efforts focused on welfare, health, and public service.
Hopkins died on September 6, 1935. Though she is not chiefly remembered as a literary figure, her story is closely tied to the wider history of women’s leadership, philanthropy, and social reform in the United States.