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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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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G'boro Colleges Issue Statements
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This May 27, 1963 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, announces the 87.3% approval rating by the student body of the college concerning a policy statement which claimed neither support nor disapproval of the recent actions of fellow Guilford students who participated in that year's anti-segregation demonstrations in Greensboro.
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Golf Club Charged with Racism
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This October 1, 1971 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on the racial discrimination of college staff, Dick Woodward, by the local Longview Golf Club. Woodward, who served as the college's Director of Counseling and Placement and who is African American, showed up to play golf with three other Guilford staff and faculty and was not allowed to play because of his race. The article reports on the complaints filed with Guilford County Community Relations Department, the North Carolina Human Relations Commission, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Greensboro Klan-Nazi Trial in Tenth Week
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This September 3, 1980 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on the ongoing trial of five Klansmen charged with the shooting deaths of five protesters at the 1979 'Death to the Klan' march.
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Hate Breeds Hate
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This November 13, 1979 double editorial was published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, in reaction to the "Death to the Klan8221; march which resulted in the death of five protesters.
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Integration & Conservatism
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In this May 27, 1963 editorial published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, student Theodore R. Buddine expresses his views concerning the recent anti-segregation demonstrations occurring in Greensboro.
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Kunstler Praises Civil Rights
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This February 5, 1980 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on a talk by New York civil rights attorney, William Kunstler, who spoke on campus to muster support for a February 2nd anti-Klan march in Greensboro. The article includes Kunstler's comments regarding the local Communist Worker's Party (CWP)'s refusal to publicly vow to march unarmed.
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Photos of Campus Reaction to Trial
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This November 25, 1980 photo essay published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, documents student and faculty protesting the verdict of the trial of five Klansmen charged with the shooting deaths of five protestant at the 1979 'Death to the Klan' march. A centerfold article on campus reaction is also included in this issue of the paper.
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The Campus Reaction to the Trial
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This November 25, 1980 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on student and faculty reactions to the verdict of the trial of five Klansmen charged with the shooting deaths of five protesters at the 1979 'Death to the Klan' march. The article includes photographs of demonstrators, as well as reflections from members of the Guilford community including Richie Zweigenhaft, Jan Earl, Cyrus Johnson, Theodor Benfey, and Carol Stoneburner.
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The Quaker, 1968
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The 1968 Guilford College yearbook, The Quaker, features candid shots of African American students in dorms, on organized and intramural sports teams, and as members of student organizations and clubs. Some of these students included Bo Whitaker and Walter Johnson. The first African American students to play for the basketball team helped bring the team to multiple championships. Also pictured is Mel Alexander on the soccer team, and Gertrude Judd as a member of the Women's Student Council. African American Fine Arts Department faculty member James C. McMillian is also pictured. Candid photos include Bo Whitaker with a white teammate after a winning basketball game, and white and black students protesting a business with signs that read: "Why should some Guilford College students have to go 6 miles to get a haircut?" refer to a student protest at a local barber shop that refused to cut black hair.
