2 Quotes & Sayings By John Charles Harman
John Charles Harman was born in 1883 in Covington, Virginia. He graduated from Hampton Institute in 1905 and received a B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1909. He began his career as a teacher and principal at both elementary and secondary levels
He also served as superintendent of schools for Norfolk, Virginia and Norfolk, Virginia. In 1910, he married Mary Alice Gathings and they had one son, John Calvin Harman Jr., who became a psychologist and author. In 1917, Harman entered the U.S.
Navy and was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander, serving until 1920. He then served as president of the Norfolk Branch of the NAACP for three years before moving to Washington D.C., where he served as secretary to the secretary of the interior under President Warren G. Harding from 1923 to 1925.
He then returned to Norfolk and founded the Norfolk School for the Blind where he also taught until his death in 1949, making him one of the oldest African American educators in Virginia history at age 73.