Spartan Stories

Tales from the UNCG University Archives

Month: February 2015

Claudette Graves Burroughs-White: Pioneer of Desegregation

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by Kathelene McCarty Smith 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 […]

UNCG’s Black Power Forum of 1967

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by Erin Lawrimore 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, […]

Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Walter Clinton Jackson, and Segregated Facilities at WC

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by Erin Lawrimore 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 […]

Pieces of the Past: Gwendolyn Magee Quilting for a Better Future

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by Jordan Rossi and Lisa Withers 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 […]

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