February is Black History Month. To celebrate, our Spartan Stories this month focus on remembering important people and events related to the history of African Americans and UNCG. Claudette Graves Burroughs-White, 1961 yearbook (p. 171) Claudette Graves Burroughs-White was a student at Woman’s College (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro) from 1957-1961. She entered […]
Month: February 2015
February is Black History Month. To celebrate, our Spartan Stories this month focus on remembering important people and events related to the history of African Americans and UNCG. Throughout the 1960s, Greensboro served as a key site for the civil rights movement. After the Sit Ins and protests of the early 1960s, the middle of […]
February is Black History Month. To celebrate, our Spartan Stories this month focus on remembering important people and events related to the history of African Americans and UNCG. Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown was a prominent African American educator who, in 1902, founded the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, NC (in eastern Guilford County). Due to […]
February is Black History Month. To celebrate, our Spartan Stories this month focus on remembering important people and events related to the history of African Americans and UNCG. Today’s post is written by guest authors Jordan Rossi and Lisa Withers, students in UNCG’s Graduate Program in Museum Studies. The exhibit of Pieces of the Past […]
