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Northshore October 2025
For 65 years, Salem State University graduate, abolitionist, writer, and educator Charlotte Forten was a tireless advocate for the end of slavery, equality for women and people of color, and education for all. In a ceremony last month, the university honored her legacy by renaming a residential hall for her, the first time a campus building has been dedicated to an African American woman. The renaming campaign was spearheaded by Michael Corley, a 2023 Salem State graduate, now a constituent services and special projects assistant for Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo. Corley first learned about Forten, who graduated in 1856, in a first-year se
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