Photographic postcard of Senator Henry Hall Falkener
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Photographic postcard of Senator Henry Hall Falkener

Unidentified · early 20th century

ink on cardboard
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

Henry Hall Falkener, Republican, served as a Senator of North Carolina, 19th district, Littleton, Warren County in the session of 1889. Falkener was also a principal at Percy Street School, the first graded school for African Americans in N.C., built in 1880, as well as one of four charter teachers at what is now NC A&T when it was founded in 1891.

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