Conversations in Black: African American History and Heritage, Greensboro, N.C.
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Deborah H. Barnes Collection
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Dr. Deborah H. Barnes was born Greensboro, N.C., the daughter of Dr. Milton H. Barnes (1925-1949) and his wife Shirley McRae Barnes. She attended UNC Chapel Hill and received her undergraduate degree from Tuskegee Institute in 1978. She was awarded an M.A. in African American literature from N.C. A&T State University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in English from Howard University in 1992. Barnes was the first tenured African America faculty member at Gettysburg College, where she taught from 1992 to 2002. After Gettysburg. Dr. Barnes was a faculty member at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, N.C. A&T State University, Jackson State University in Mississippi, and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has also been a Visiting Research fellow at the International Civil Rights center and Museum in Greensboro. The collection consists of photographs of Dr. Barnes, her family, and her work, and includes numerous images of the Clinton Hills and Benbow Park neighborhoods in Greensboro. See also the Shirley McRae Barnes Collection (https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/community:CC0088) and the Deborah Barnes Papers at Gettysburg University (https://www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/pdfs/ms/ms-112.pdf).
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Shirley McRae Barnes Collection
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Shirley McRae Barnes is a retired public relations consultant and active participant in civic groups in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Long Island University. Barnes and her husband, Dr. Milton H. Barnes, were active in the development and growth of Greensboro's L. Richardson Memorial Hospital. Dr. Barnes, who died in 1974, was a dentist, as was his father, Dr. Boise Winslow Barnes, and he was, a plaintiff in the case of Simkins v. Moses Cone Hospital (1963), the landmark Supreme Court decision that desegregated hospitals throughout the South. Dr. and Mrs. Barnes moved into the Clinton Hills neighborhood in the early 1960s and raised their daughter, Dr. Deborah H. Barnes (see additional collection) and son, Milton W. (Billy) Barnes, in homes on Cambridge Avenue and later on Lakeland Road. Shirley M. Barnes married writer and activist Hal Sieber in 1980.
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Janice E. Buie Collection
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Janice E. Buie is a longtime Greensboro resident. Her father, Sampson E, Buie, Jr., was a graduate of N.C. A&T State University and UNC Greensboro (Doctor of Education), and was employed in a variety of positions at A&T. He was also an ordained Baptist minister. Her mother, Catherine O. Buie, graduated from A&T and the Winston-Salem Teachers College (now Winston-Salem State University) and was employed by the Guilford County Schools for over twenty years. Buie's parents were also the owners of the first home purchased in Greensboro's Benbow Road Community in 1960.
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Larry Burnett Collection
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Col. Larry Burnett is a longtime Greensboro resident who has been instrumental in the leadership and growth of the Hayes-Taylor YMCA and other institutions.
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Fred and Hyla Bynum Cundiff Collection
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Fred and Hyla Cundiff were born and grew up together in Wilkes County, N.C. In their professional careers each made significant contributions to the education of African American students, both in Wilkesboro and Greensboro. Fred Cundiff came to Greensboro to teach in 1954. He became the first African-American Assistant School Superintendant in 1969, playing a crucial role in the relatively peaceful integration of Greensboro's school system in the early 1970s. Hyla Cundiff was an elementary school teacher for over 30 years, primarily at the Washingon Street, Bluford, and Vandalia Elementary schools. Her thirteen years of volunteer work with the American Cancer Society brought her the distinct honor of the prestigious "2 Those Who Care" award in 1989.
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Skip Dalton Collection
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Skip Dalton is a Greensboro resident. The collection included an item pertaining to Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
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Sharon D. Graeber Collection
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Sharon Denise Graeber is an architect living in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her parents, Marvin B.Graeber (1920-2020) and Beulah L. Graeber (d. 1998) were longtime residents of the Clinton Heights/Benbow Park neighborhood in Greensboro, where Sharon Graeber grew up. The collection contains historical material documenting Shareon Graeber's family and also contemporary material documenting her work as an architect, entrepreneur, and member of Grace Lutheran Church.
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C.C. and Mable Clay Griffin Collection
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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).
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Coley M. Hooker Jr. Collection
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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.
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Jenkins Family Collection
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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.
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Andrew Johnson Collection
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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.
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Valarie Spaulding Little Collection
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Valarie Spaulding Little is a longtime resident of Greensboro who has been involved in numerous civic and service organizations. She is a graduate of North Carolina Central University and was employed by the Guilford County Schools and the Guilford County Department of Social Services. She is a member of North Carolina's prestigious Order of the Long leaf Pine and was the NAACP Greensboro Chapter's Woman of the Year 1983, among other honors.
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Jo Evans Lynn Collection
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Dr. Jo Evans Lynn is a Greensboro educator and author, a member of the Council of Elders, an organization that supports programs, activities, and mentoring initiatives that encourage the active participation of positive male role models in the lives of boys and young men, and an active member of Wells Memorial Church of God in Christ (COGIC). The collection contains memorial material related to her parents and siblings as well as pamphlet created for Wells Memorial honoring mothers and fathers in the congregation and community.
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Maco Beauty College Collection
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This collection centers on Maco Beauty College, its founders and its students. Established in 1935 by Sadie Mack and Edward D. London, the school trained over one thousand cosmetologists in its 34-year-history. Materials in the collection include correspondence regarding student enrollment and exam records, school bulletins, student newspapers, commencement programs, educational textbooks and lesson planning guides, photographs and an audio interview. Researchers interested in local African American history and institutions during segregation will find this collection of use.
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Family Collection of Dr. William Lloyd Tevis Miller and Eva Hamlin Miller
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Eva Katherine Hamlin Miller (1911-1991) was an artist from Greensboro, North Carolina. She grew up in New York City and studied at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York; Columbia University, the Graduate School of Fine Art in Florence and the University of Ibadan in Nigeria before moving to North Carolina. She became an art instructor at Bennett College in 1937, and went on to have a long career as an educator in many universities and colleges, as well as the Greensboro city schools. Along with former student and Greensboro Congresswoman, Alma Adams, Miller helped cofound the African American Atelier in 1990. She served as its curator until her death in 1991. The collection includes documentation of Miller's life, material about family members--including her husband Dr. William Lloyd Tevis Miller and her children Lloyd Tevis Miller and Tyron Miller--as well as a collection of obituaries of noteworthy African American residents of Greensboro.
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Juliet Raleigh Pickard Collection
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Juliet Raleigh Pickard is a Greensboro resident and the daughter of Luther H. Raleigh, Jr. and Audrey Goins Raleigh, business owners who were also very much involved with community groups.
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