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Special Collections and University Archives
Month: January 2010
The Sit-Ins: Woman’s College Perspective
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-Ins, University Archives has created an exhibit to honor the Woman’s College (now UNCG) students who participated in the sit-ins. Woolworth On Monday, February 1, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students initiated what would become a nationwide protest when they demanded the right to sit and be […]
The Integration of Woman’s College
JoAnne Smart (left) and Bettye Davis Tillman (right) In recognition of Black History Month, University Archives has installed an exhibit honoring JoAnne Smart and Bettye Davis Tillman who were the first two African-American students to attend the Woman’s College (now UNCG). Entering on September 13, 1956, the young women were first housed on the first […]
Cool Exhibit
Inspired by the unseasonably cold temperatures outside, Special Collections is exhibiting artists books relating to winter. Take a walk in Winter air : a journal, written by Linda Hoffman. Hoffman, an anthropologist, studied the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea. Winter air . . . is selections from her journal, illustrated with photographs. Three poets, Ardyth […]
