One year after the era of co-education was ushered in with the enrollment of male undergraduates in 1964, Frank Pleasants was hired to coordinate competitive athletics for male students at UNCG. Campus administrators saw a robust athletic program as a significant way of encouraging male enrollment. UNCG men’s basketball head coach Jim Swiggett (p. 175) […]
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When organized in the 1967-1968 academic year, the Neo Black Society at UNCG expressed three primary goals for the new student group. Two social missions were recognized: a desire to help with voter registration drives and to work with the Greensboro United Tutorial Service (a community group aimed at connecting college students with community education […]
In 1967, black students at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) formed the student group, the Neo-Black Society (NBS), in response to growing concerns about the support and acceptance of black students on campus. At its founding, the NBS was extremely separatist, calling for parallel university events for black students. The organization was […]
JoAnne Smart and Bettye Tillman, 1956 In 1954, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. This decision eventually led the state of North Carolina to begin the process of desegregating its three branches of the Consolidated University […]
Woolworth Prior to the 1960s, all public accommodations in the South were segregated including hotels, restaurants, restrooms, theaters, water fountains, and lunch counters. African Americans could buy food at some lunch counters and take the food out, but they could not sit at the counters to eat. On Monday, February 1, 1960, four North Carolina […]
Phoebe Pegram Currently kept in the Adornments and Medals Series of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Archives Collection, the Peabody Medal, won by Phoebe Pegram, is an object with an undeniably intriguing history. One of over 350 objects in the collection, it is one of four medals currently in the artifacts collection. This […]
In 1987, Carolyn Owen, a grounds maintenance staff member at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, transferred five blue prints, eighteen drawings, and one sepia print of campus buildings and grounds that she had found in storage to the University Archives. The paper and linen documents ranged in size from approximately 5 x 13 […]
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Minerva, Our Goddess
How long has Minerva been associated with UNCG? An 1894 diploma in our Archives (the earliest diploma we have) proudly displays Minerva within the seal. Seal from 1894 diploma featuring Minerva It is strictly conjecture, but certainly plausible that the school’s founder, Charles Duncan McIver, is the person responsible for selecting Minerva. McIver won a […]
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Computing on Campus
Roscoe Allen, head of the campus’s first computer center, a position he held from 1967-1982 Computers seem ubiquitous on campus today, that hasn’t always been the case. While a campus network of computers wasn’t in place until the 1990s, faculty and staff have made use of computers and computing services offered on campus since 1959. […]
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Happy Holidays!
Students in the snow in front of the Main Building (now Foust), circa 1911 The staff of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives wishes everyone a happy holiday season! We’re taking a break this week, but please join us on Monday, January 7th for a new Spartan Story. Jackson Library and the […]
