Civil Rights Clippings from Guilford College Publications
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A&T College Senior Explains Current Sit-Down Strike
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In this May 10, 1960 article in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reporter Penny Smith interviews an unnamed senior from North Carolina A&T College about why students from that institution and nearby Bennett College entered into their sit-in movement and what they hoped to gain from their efforts. The article provides context for understanding Guilford College's role, or lack of a role, in the efforts to integrate local lunch counters and points to a perceived separation between Guilford College and the wider Greensboro community.
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Administration Holds Non-commital Attitude As Student Pickets Demonstrate At Imperial Barber Shop
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This February 23, 1968 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, describes students picketing the Imperial Barber Shop which refused to provide services to African American students and college administration's perspective that " students will have to act as individuals." Picketing was the students' attempt to appeal to the wider community regarding integration and equal access to services.
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African Educator Visits Campus
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In this May 11, 1961 article in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reporter Shirley Jones describes Kenyan educator Benjamin Wegasa's visit to Guilford's campus and the many lectures and programs offered during his stay. Wegasa focused on education as the determining factor in his nation's success recognized the need to increase education of women.
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Arts Series Segregation Questioned by Students
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In this letter to the editor submitted by Guilford student Kirk Woods, the use of the term "segregation" was in reference to the entire student body being forced to sit in the back of Dana Auditorium during the Arts Series lectures. Woods claimed that such a policy, forced on students who do pay for their tickets, hampered their ability to participate in such lectures, especially when offered the opportunity to question the presenters as they were often passed over for questions from "patrons." This is significant as it is a utilization of the word less in reference to race and more so to age highlighting changing attitudes at the college and around the country.
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Athletes Backed by Blacks
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This October 10, 1969 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on a demonstration by African American students regarding grooming policies for athletes. While the school's policy mandated short hair on athletes, black athletes argued that Afro hairstyles were a critical part of black identity.
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BASIB
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This November 8, 1968 editorial by staff writer Mark Lessner was published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, and highlights the stereotyping of black students on the Guilford College campus. The student organization, Brothers and Sisters in Blackness (BASIB), formed at the college that same year and challenged stereotypes and assumptions about black students and the role of African-Americans in society and history.
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BASIB Voices Discontent
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This March 7, 1969 article in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, announces the discontent of black students with the college administration's responses to their requests for black faculty members and courses focused on the African-American culture and history. After many meetings with administrators and attempts to bring events and speakers to campus with little interest from the rest of the community, Brothers and Sisters in Blackness (BASIB) wrote this article in an effort to connect with fellow students and gain wider support on such issues.
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Barber Shop As Hoc Legislation
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This February 16, 1968 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on the efforts of the Guilford College community to force local barber shops to integrate. This is significant as a point in the college's history when the students, both white and black, were willing to take up a cause and push for a meaningful solution, regardless of whether or not it was considered the popular course of action.
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Barber Shop Forum
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This October 27, 1967 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on the progress at the second meeting hosted at Guilford College regarding the racial discrimination against potential "Negro" customers at the Imperial Barber Shop. The shop refused to cut the hair of "Negro" customers, and students and faculty at the College met to decide if further action should be taken. An increasing number of African American students enrolled at Guilford needed access to such services, bringing the issue of civil rights closer to the Guilford College campus.
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Black Student Finds Demands Necessary
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This March 28, 1969 article in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on recent events at Duke University regarding a protest by the hundred black students at the university in an effort to force decisions on their demands for an Afro-American studies department and increased numbers of black students admitted to the institution. Similar events had occurred at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Writer Jean Parvin describes the demands by the black students at Guilford College as outlined in a March 7 article in the The Guilfordian.
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Black Students Form BASIB
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This October 18, 1968 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, announces the formation of Brother and Sisters in Blackness (BASIB). The group included many of Guilford's black students and was organized, not for the sake of inciting "militant action" but rather for the purpose of providing a space on campus where black students might maintain and develop an identity and to offer opportunities to the whole campus to learn about the significance and importance of African American history and culture.
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Black Studies Program May Come Soon
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This March 28, 1969 article reprinted in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on the development of a Black Studies program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Black Studies? Where?
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This March 14, 1969 editorial in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, questions the value of creating a Black Studies programs at American colleges and universities, an issue that Guilford College was facing at the time.
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Black students On White Southern Campuses
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This article credited to "Atlanta (CPS)" highlighted the issues facing black students at historically white southern colleges. While this story came from Atlanta, Georgia, the situation facing black students at Guilford College was similar in many ways. Small in numbers, this group of the student body had not demanded many changes yet, but as the article suggested, demands by these relatively small groups of students would increase over the coming years.
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Blacks Not Stereotyped
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In this November 1, 1968 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, writer Phil Edgerton examines racial stereotyping on campus by interviewing several African American students who discuss special treatment, discrimination, Black Power, and civil rights.
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Bond To Lecture At Convo: Sally Peterson heads art series
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This September 27, 1968 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, announces upcoming visitors to the Guilford College campus including Georgia legislator and civil rights activist, Julian Bond, and civil rights leader and founder of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), James Farmer.
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Color-blindness Not For Blacks
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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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Dick Gregory at A&T
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This February 7, 1969 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, announces an upcoming visit of comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory to nearby North Carolina A&T State University. The article also mentions a possible speaker ban considered by the Greensboro City Council after a visit to the A&T campus by Black Power leader Stokley Carmichael. While such a ban had been considered by the state government, it had already been deemed unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Drifters Smashing Success
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This April 17, 1964 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, celebrates the success of the Saturday night performance by the popular group The Drifters and describes the event as one which, "thrilled our normally apathetic student body." Students from many other areas colleges also attended the event, making for a crowd of about five hundred people.
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