Community-contributed Collections

Through our Community Collections program, we work with many community groups (schools, churches, neighborhood associations) and individuals to make their history available online. The items in this digital collection are not held by UNCG; they are housed in the homes and offices of individuals, businesses, and local community groups, as noted in each item's description. These community partners, through their willingness to share their historical materials, allow us to provide access to the public while letting the physical materials remain in the possession of the groups and individuals who contribute them.

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: Greensboro Historical Teaching Alliance Collection; The Greensboro Historical Teaching Alliance is made up of a group of educators, organizers and survivors of the November 3, 1979 Greensboro Massacre. The Alliance began meeting in January 2018 to address an unmet recommendation by the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Report (TRCR) that students in the Guilford County Schools should learn about this historic event as part of their education. The team met regularly from Jan 2018- 2022 to complete a unit on the Greensboro Massacre. Members joined at different times and brought the skills and resources necessary to write and critique the lessons, create and find the supplemental materials, find teachers to pilot the unit and promote it with webinars at the Greensboro History Museum.

: Greensboro Jewish Federation; Since 1940, the Greensboro Jewish Federation has funded programs that care for people at every stage of life – strengthening community, providing leadership, and nurturing the leaders of tomorrow. The Federation serves the community in many ways, offering programming, networking, and social events; brokering community relations; advocating for Israel, and organizing city-wide religious observances and celebrations. The collection currently consists of over 400 issues of the foundation's newsletter/magazine dating from 1973 to the present.

: C.C. and Mable Clay Griffin Collection; Curl Caesar (C.C.) Griffin C.C. Griffin (1910-1986) was a 1935 graduate of N.C. A&T College (now N.C. A&T State University) and received as masters degree from Butler University. He served as principal of Logan School in Concord, N.C. from 1954 to 1969, and then worked as a personnel supervisor for Cannon Mills in Kannapolis. C.C. Griffin STEM Middle School in Concord is named in his honor. CC. Griffin and his wife, Mable Clay Griifin, had three children, a son Leonard Osborne Griffin (1939-2023) and identical twin daughters, Marilyn Yvonne Griffin (b. 1937) and LaRose Elizabeth Griffin (1937-2023).

: Guilford Green Foundation Archives; Photographs and other documents relating to Guilford Green Foundation, donated as part of the PRIDE! Of the Community project.

: David Gwynn Collection; David Gwynn (b.1964) is a librarian and faculty member at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This collections contains material documenting commercial architecture, family members, and LGBTQ+ life.

: Anthony Hatcher Collection; Collection of personal photographs taken by a UNCG student from the top of the Jackson Library Tower (and other campus locations) in 1976-1977. Photos were taken with Hatcher's Pentax K-1000 camera and include numerous campus buildings and shots of the Greensboro skyline.

: Haw River Farmhouse Ales Archives; Photographs and other documents relating to the establishment of Haw River Farmhouse Ales, donated by the company as part of the Well Crafted NC project. Most are born-digital items.

: Hayes-Taylor YMCA Archives; This collection of photographs and documents various periods in the history of the Hayes-Taylor Memorial YMCA In Greensboro.

: Hicks Family Collection; Dr. A. James Hicks and his wife Pearl were longtime educators in Greensboro, North Carolina.

: High Pint Brewery; Photographs and other documents relating to the establishment of High Pint Brewery, donated by the company as part of the Well Crafted NC project. All are born-digital items.

: Scott Hinshaw Collection; Scott Hinshaw is employed by the University Libraries of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

: Historic Bethabara Park Archives; Contextual material on early brewing activties in what is now Winston-Salem, N.C.

: The Historic Dimension Series; Informational pamphlets on architectural topics created by students in the Interior Architecture department at UNC Greensboro.

: Kipp Hollingsworth Collection; Items documenting the "Pop the Cap" movement in North Carolina, which allowed a higher alcohol content in beer.

: Coley M. Hooker Jr. Collection; Coley M. Hooker, Jr. is a retired educator and administrator in the Guilford County (N.C.) Schools and is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University.

: Hoppin J's Farm Collection; Photographs and other documents relating to the establishment of Hoppin J's Farm, donated by the company as part of the Well Crafted NC project. Most are born-digital items.

: Jenkins Family Collection; Willie Edward "Blue" Jenkins (1923-1988) was a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University who worked at the architectural firm of Edward Loewenstein architectural firm from 1949 to 1961. Jenkins became an associate by 1954, the first African-American architect in Greensboro to do so. He established his own practice in 1961. Jenkins designed several landmark buildings in Greensboro, including the gymnasium at Dudley High School, several buildings at N.C. A&T State University, the Greensboro National Bank on Murrow Boulevard, and the home of noted attorney J. Kenneth Lee. Much of the material in the collection was shared by his wife, Gladys Jenkins, and daughter, Miltrene Jenkins Bardin.

: Andrew Johnson Collection; Lt. Colonel Andrew Johnson was a native of Greensboro and a 1940 graduate of Dudley High School. He went on to become a Tuskegee Airman and a member of the 99 Pursuit Squadron in World War II. In 1967, he assumed command of the first ROTC program in the Greensboro City Schools at Dudley High. Johnson died in 1992.

: Joymongers Brewing Co. Archives; Photographs and other documents relating to the establishment of Joymongers Brewing Co., donated by the company as part of the Well Crafted NC project. Most are born-digital items.

: Junior League of Greeensboro Collection; Annual reports and newsletters documenting the history of the Junior League and its activities in Greensboro.

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