Civil Rights Greensboro
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- Chancellor Ferguson's response to Student Government resolution on Food service
- This letter, dated May 15, 1969, is University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson's response to a copy of a Student Government Association resolution on university food services. The resolution urged administration to consider vendors other than ARA Slater during the contract negotiations. Ferguson responds that he has forwarded the resolution to Henry L. Ferguson and also notes that there is a committee allowing student input on the decision. This exchange follows the food workers' strike that took place at UNCG from March 27 to April 2, 1969.
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- Chancellor Ferguson's response to student letter concerning UNCG food services
- This letter, dated May 9, 1969, is University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson's response to an April 30 letter from UNCG student Nancy Kay Highfill. In her letter, Highfill had expressed dissatisfaction with the food services provided by contractor ARA Slater and had suggested some changes in the program. Ferguson's response notes that negotiations are occurring with student input and that Highfill's suggestion of a "pay as you go" plan is among the ideas under consideration. This exchange follows the food workers' strike that took place at UNCG from March 27 to April 2, 1969.
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- Chancellor returns NBS funds
- This April 3, 1973, article from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), reports that Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson had, as a result of a decision by a faculty appeals committee, decided to restore funding and recognition to the Neo Black Society, a student organization founded in 1968. The Student Government Association had voted on March 26, 1973 to reclassify (remove funding and recognition from) the Neo Black Society, based on allegations that the organization was discriminatory and possibly was in violation of an SGA prohibition against affiliations with political or religious organizations. The SGA decision was overturned by university administration on the basis of faulty evidence and improper procedure by SGA, resulting in an eventual legal filing by SGA members. At the beginning of the 1973-74 school year, the Neo Black Society was reinstated by SGA as a recognized and funded student organization after revising its constitution to reflect that membership was open to all students without regard to race.
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- Changes in the constitution of the Neo Black Society
- These changes in the constitution of the Neo-Black Society, a UNCG student organization, were proposed at a time when the organization was redefining its role amid controversies of the group's classification as a student organization at UNCG. The proposed changes reflect a broadening of the group's mission to include all students, not just African American students, and to support work in all Greensboro communities working toward racial justice. Curtis was an attorney hired by a group of students who were suing the university and the Neo-Black Society for racial discrimination.
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- Charges against NBS said invalid
- This March 1, 1973, article from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), reports that the UNCG Student Government Association (SGA) Committee on Classification of Organizations had determined that charges of discrimination and of affiliation with a black separatist group made against the Neo Black Society, a student organization founded in 1968, were invalid. The closed committee meeting was held on a Sunday afternoon, and student media representatives were removed from the room due to objections from both sides. Several senators argued that the organization was discriminatory and possibly was in violation of an SGA prohibition against affiliations with political or religious organizations. On March 26, 1973, SGA had voted to reclassify (remove funding and recognition from) the Neo Black Society. The SGA decision was overturned by university administration on the basis of faulty evidence and improper procedure by SGA, resulting in an eventual legal filing by SGA members. At the beginning of the 1973-74 school year, the Neo Black Society was reinstated by SGA as a recognized and funded student organization after revising its constitution to reflect that membership was open to all students without regard to race.
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- Cheryl Sosnik
- This photograph of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro's Student Government Association Vice President Cheryl Sosnik appeared in the 1974 Pine Needles yearbook. Sosnik was involved in the controversial reclassification of the school's Neo-Black Society. The exact date of the photograph and the photographer are unknown.
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- Civil Rights: Forward and Onward
- In this February 2, 1980 Greensboro Daily News article, Kenneth Campbell discusses the opinions of Jibreel Khazan (Ezell Blair Jr.), Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond on the current state of civil rights. Richmond believes new approaches to fighting for equality are needed. William Thomas, active during the 1963 civil rights demonstrations in Greensboro, is quoted as saying "black people do not have to be out in the streets giving up their bodies to get their rights." Thomas argues that because certain rights were gained in the sixties, blacks can now work within the system of government to make further gains. Dr. Samuel Proctor, former president of North Carolina A&T State University, is quoted as saying "we must make it indelible in this country that we believe in the dignity and worth of everybody." This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook about the twentieth anniversary of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the sit-ins. Kenneth Campbell was a staff writer for the Greensboro Daily News in 1980.
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- Civil Rights
- In this March 8, 1968 op-ed article published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian, Joe Volpe reminds readers about Greensboro's past involvement with the civil rights movement and contains commentary on the South Carolina bowling alley slayings which occurred in early 1968. The author concludes that education, not job training, will eventually be the factor that ends the problem of racism and discrimination.
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- Civil Rights Provoke Filibuster
- This March 14, 1960 article published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian describes a filibuster that occurred in US Congress on February 29, 1960, when the issue of protecting black voting rights came before it.
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- Civil War Centennial Stirs Memories; Underground Railroad Had Depot Here
- In this April 20, 1961 article in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reporter Shirley Jones highlights Guilford College's role in the Civil War as a stop on the Underground Railroad, providing context for the school's history with civil and human rights issues.
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- Civil rights charges eyed in shootout
- This uncredited December 13, 1980, article from the Greensboro Daily Newsreports that U.S. Attorney H.M. Michaux is considering civil rights charges against ten Klansmen and Nazis accused of killing five Communist Workers Party members at the Death to the Klan march in Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 3, 1979. In addition, a civil suit was filed against the accused on November 3, 1980. This activity followed the acquittal of the defendants on murder charges earlier that year.
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- Civil rights groups here express concern about Nov. 3 killings
- This May 15, 1982, article by Alex Mukendi of the Carolina Peacemaker reports that several civil rights groups have ongoing concerns about the dissemination of truthful information related to the murders of five Communist Workers Party members at the Death to the Klan march in Greensboro on November 3, 1979, including appropriate terminology ("ambush" or "massacre") and press coverage of the incident.
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- Civil rights sloganeering
- Washington Post columnist Edwin M. Yoder Jr. explores the effectiveness of civil rights laws and the struggle between those who wish to strive toward a literal colorblind society and those who wish to be conscious of and accommodating to those groups that had been traditionally disadvantaged. This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the 1960 sit-ins that spawned lunch counter sit-ins across the South and rejuvenated the civil rights movement. Along with the article are Harris" handwritten notes in response to this article that claim the Greensboro Woolworth store employed more blacks than the city's ratio of blacks to white and that Woolworth employed solely on the basis of merit.
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- College Management Report, "What Black Students Want"
- Magazine article aimed at college administrators with the goals of determining what black students are saying on college campuses and presenting what American college campuses have done to minimize confrontations with black students. Starting with a generalized determination that "black students themselves don't really know what they want," the article is primarily an interview with Hugh Lane, the executive director of the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students. Hugh dismisses CM's assertion toward an attitude of separatism from black students and identifies it instead as a call for pluralism, integration without the loss of cultural heritage. Hugh continually asserts that the society as a whole is racist and this has led to deep distrust on the part young blacks toward whites and older blacks. Confrontation, Hugh contends, arises out of the inaction by administrations and trustees to affect change on college campuses.
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- College racism targeted
- This article by Donald W. Patterson appeared in the February 23, 1990 Greensboro News & Record and reports on an upcoming investigation of racism within North Carolina schools and colleges. Citing several recent incidents, including a walkout at Page High School in Greensboro over remarks published in the school newspaper, the N.C. Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights planned to review race relations in schools statewide. Educators noted that tolerance and racial attitudes were not changing as they had in recent decades. This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook on race relations in Greensboro by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the 1960 sit-ins.
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- Colleges celebrate black history
- These announcements of Black History Month events and speaking engagements sponsored by colleges in Greensboro in 1984 were published in the Greensboro Daily News on January 30, 1984. The highlighted event was a collaborative effort by most of the area colleges and universities to host civil rights leader Julian Bond at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) campus. Other featured speakers were author and feminist Sonia Sanchez, New York City-based minister Samuel D. Proctor, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) founder Ralph David Abernathy. Also included is a write up of the February One Society's annual event honoring selected people who promote, "the causes of unity and justice in Greensboro." The February One Society was a non-profit originally formed in Greensboro in 1979 with the goal of commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the February 1, 1960 Woolworth's sit-ins. These items were clipped and saved in a scrapbook by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the 1960 sit-ins.
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- Color-blindness Not For Blacks
- In this March 14, 1969 article in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, student writer Jean Parvin reportson the visit by James Farmer to the college. Farmer was Assistant Secretary of the Health, Education, and Welfare Department under the Nixon Administration and was one of the founding members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Farmer's talk focused on issues of race in America and his desire for the future of race-relations, "not color blindness, but color conscience to eliminate color inequality."
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- Come to Greensboro to Join a New Movement for Justice
- This flyer urges attendance at a protest march to be held in Greensboro on February 2, 1980, and includes instructions for participants coming from the Durham area. The flyer most likely relates to a peaceful demonstration mobilized by the National Ant-Klan Network in response to the killings at the November 3, 1979 Death to the Klan march. According to the flyer, a permit had been secured, as had use of the Greensboro Coliseum. The reverse contains lyrics to protest songs such as <cite class="music">We Shall Not Be Moved and <cite class="music">We Shall Overcome.
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- Coming Soon: Red November Black November
- This undated flyer announces an upcoming documentary on the November 3, 1979, Greensboro Massacre entitled "Red November Black November". The film was directed and produced by Sally Alvarez and Carolyn Jung and distributed by Cesar Cauce Publishers and Distributors. The title is a reference to a 1917 poem by Ralph Chaplin for the International Workers of the World (IWW).
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- Comment
- In this April 3, 1973, editorial from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), the newspaper questions the legality of Chancellor James Sharbrough Ferguson's decision to restore funding and recognition to the Neo Black Society, a student organization founded in 1968. Citing the Grant of Power and the Student Governament Association (SGA) constitution, the editorial questions whether the chancellor had the authority to override an SGA decision on allocation of student activity funds. The Student Government Association had voted on March 26, 1973 to reclassify (remove funding and recognition from) the Neo Black Society, based on allegations that the organization was discriminatory and possibly was in violation of an SGA prohibition against affiliations with political or religious organizations. The SGA decision was overturned by university administration on the basis of faulty evidence and improper procedure by SGA, resulting in an eventual legal filing by SGA members. At the beginning of the 1973-74 school year, the Neo Black Society was reinstated by SGA as a recognized and funded student organization after revising its constitution to reflect that membership was open to all students without regard to race.
