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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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Carolyn Shankle Collection
Carolyn Shankle is employed the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives of UNCG University Libraries. These items are digitized from her personal collection of beer and brewing memorabilia.
Shipman Scrapbook:
Scrapbook maintained by Roy Shipman.
Carolyn P. Coleman Simms Collection
Carolyn Patricia Coleman Simms is a Greensboro resident who grew up with her family on Lutheran Street and graduated from Dudley High School in 1968. Her father, Mitchell Coleman Jr., was Head laboratory Technician at L. Richardson Hospital. Her mother, Delores Robbins Coleman was a 1941 graduate of Winston-Salem Teachers College (now Winston-Salem State University).
Evelyn V. Slade Collection
Evelyn V. Slade is a longtime Greensboro resident, an alumna of Guilford Technical Community College, and a retail customer service lead. Her parents, John and Rose Lee Vines established Vines Cleaners, which had branches in Greensboro and Winston-Salem. The collection consists of material about Vines Cleaners and about Berry Hill Plantation. There is also considerable material about the Vines and Shoffner/Headen families, including family trees, family histories, and numerous photos dating back to the 1800s.
Moreland Smith Collection
Moreland Smith is Assistant Vice Chancellor-ITS-MIS at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Ronald Owens Smith, Jr. Collection
Dr. Ronald Owens Smith, Jr, was a faculty member and administrator at North Carolina A&T State University. The collections consists of photos documenting his family and career, several memorial programs, an animated video by his students, and an oral history interview with his cousin.
South End Brewing Company Collection
Photographs and other documents relating to the establishment of South End Brewing Company, donated by the company as part of the Well Crafted NC project. Most are born-digital items.
Sylvia Dean Stanback Collection
Sylvia Dean Stanback is a lifelong resident of Greensboro. She is the great-granddaughter of James Monroe Dean, Sr. (1834-1902) and Lucinda Mitchell Dean (1834-1911). The Mitchell and Dean families played significant roles in the development of Greensboro, and particularly of Providence Baptist Church. James Dean was a Guilford County magistrate, philanthropist, and businessman--the owner of Dean's Brickyard, which supplied bricks for the construction of many early Greensboro landmarks.
T.O. Stokes, Jr,. Collection
The T.O. Stokes, Jr., Collection documents Stokes's community service with such organizations as the Hayes-Taylor YMCA, the Greensboro Men's Club, and Providence Baptist Church. Stokes has been active in the business, spiritual, and cultural life of Greensboro's African American community since arriving in the city in the 1940s.
Sunset Hills Neighborhood Project
This collection contains material contributed by the Sunset Hills Neighborhood Association and by neighborhood residents as part of an ongoing community documentation project tracing the history and development of this historic Greensboro neighborhood.
Tom Taylor Collection
The Tom Taylor Collection consists of a 1934 letter to Taylor's mother documenting the history of Greensboro schools.
Sherry M. Teal Illustrative Oral History Collection
Illustrative oral history drawings completed as part of the "Conversations in Black: African American History and Heritage, Greensboro, N.C." community memory project. Sherry M. Teal is an architectural historian and artist based in Greensboro.
Lily Gabrielle Wilkinson Thompson Family Papers
Lily Gabrielle Wilkinson Thompson (1867-1942) was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi. She was active in the suffrage movement and served many official roles in the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association. This collection was contributed by her granddaughter Gabrielle Beard and includes scrapbooks Thompson created for her daughter, memorabilia from other family members, genealogical material about family members in Mississippi and North Carolina, photographs, and other items.
Totten Family Collection
The Totten Family collection documents family members descended from Riley and Zula Clapp Totten (one of the first three graduates of the Palmer Memorial Institute in 1905). One of their sons, Arthur Sylvester Totten (1913-1999), was a native of Guilford County, a retired professor of poultry science at N.C. A&T State University and an Army veteran. He held a B.S. degree from West Virginia State University and a M.S. degree from Michigan State University. He was a former board member of American Federal Savings and Loan Association, a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, the United Methodist Men, Chancel choir and the Men's choir at St. Matthews United Methodist Church in Greensboro. Totten's wife Geraldine (d. 1990) was a faculty member at Bennett College from 1966 to 1985. His son, Arthur Avery Totten (b. 1948), was employed by the Environmental Protection Agency and now resides in Greensboro. The collection includes photographs of family and friends and of trips to Nigeria, funeral service programs, and printed items related to St. Matthews, N.C. A&T State University, and other civic groups.
Triad Black Lives Matter Collection
The purpose of the Triad Black Lives Matters Collection is to document the BLM movement, police brutality protests, and race relations in the Triad area of North Carolina. The collection contains digital photographs and video footage relating to the Black Lives Matter movement and the George Floyd protests.
Triad Brewers Alliance Archives
Photographs and other documents relating to the establishment of Triad Brewers Alliance, donated by the company as part of the Well Crafted NC project. Most are born-digital items.
Triad NC Women's March Photographs
Photos documenting the Triad Women's March, one of many such marches held nationwide on 21 January 2017. Photos were contributed by march participants.
Ronald Tuck Collection
Ronald Tuck is a Greensboro resident, a graduate of N.C. A&T State University, and a member of the A&T Hall of Fame.
Unsung Heroes Oral History Collection
The Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement Project is collecting visual histories of the many people who stood beside Civil Rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer and others from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. While the names of these "unsung heroes" are less familiar, their stories and recollections represent the pervasive courage and strength of the thousands of people who struggled for equality. Their stories will add to the rich history of the struggle for social justice and this struggle's impact on the nation and the world.
Lolita C. Watkins Collection
Lolita Cheryl Watkins, daughter of Clarence C. Watkins, Sr. (1907-1990) and Evelyn J. Watkins of Reidsville, N.C., is an alumna of UNC Greensboro, was a curriculum specialist for the Guilford County Schools. She is an active member of Saint James Presbyterian Church in Greensboro and has been involved with numerous community ministries. Her father was a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University and Columbia University, and was employed as a teacher at Elm Grove Elementary School and later as the first Black supervisor of the Rockingham County School System, as well as a number of civil and educational organizations.

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