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GUILFORD COLLEGE
CHARTERED 1834 FOUNDED 1837
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
27410
Office of the President
Dear Robert:
This is to inform all Trustees of two situations which happened
with the black students at Guilford College. On Friday afternoon,
March 13, a sizeable delegation of black students came to the Administration Building and asked to speak with several of our administrators,
including myself, and several of Guilford's teaching personnel.
During the meeting the black students told us of their feeling
that they were under special pressures as a minority group at Guilford
and that they felt Guilford College had done too little to improve
their situation at the college since they came. (They had earlier
requested that Guilford make great effort to hire more black professors.)
They asked that we redouble our efforts to get black professors.
They also asked for a place where the black students could meet
and be together. They said that they felt real hostility almost every
place where they met on campus, including being denied the privilege
of remaining in the dining room after meals. In response, we have
found a.place for them in two unneeded rooms of Cox Hall, for we felt
that this was a legitimate request, particularly since B.A.S.I.B. is
a regularly chartered student organisation.
In that few of the black students owned cars, and since the
atmosphere around the town of Guilford College was not conducive to
their "hitch-hiking11 as other students do, they asked to be able to
use college cars when they were available. In that Guilford has a
policy which allows the use of college cars to regularly organized
campus organizations (at their own expense), we found no difficulty
in^granting this request.
There were several other minor requests, but the one which the
college found itself unable to accept was their request to be guaranteed
a minimum grade of nC8? on their college work this semester. Their
reasoning behind this request was that they had contributed greatly to
plans for improving the atmosphere at Guilford so as to make it conducive
for black students to come here; that they had served as resource persons
in various courses in which information concerning black people was ,
needed; and that they had spent a great deal of time conferring among
themselves as to how to be a really positive influence en campus. For
these reasons, and because it was more difficult for a black to simply
Object Description
| Title | [Letter from Grimsley Hobbs to Robert Frazier] |
| Date | 1970-03-17 |
| Creator | Hobbs, Grimsley T. |
| Biographical/historical note | Grimsley T. Hobbs was president of Guilford College from 1965 to 1980. |
| Subject headings | Guilford College |
| Topics | Race relations at Guilford College |
| Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
| Description | In this March 17, 1970 letter to Guilford College trustee, Robert Frazier, President Grimsley Hobbs reports on several of the school's African American students speaking to members of the college's administration and faculty about pressures they were under as black students on campus. The letter conveys how the students feel a real hostility on campus and how they requested the use of the college cars to go to town due to the difficulty for black youths to hitch rides in Greensboro. The administration agreed to the use of campus cars and found two empty rooms for the students to meet where they might feel less hostility. The administration could not agree to the students' request of a guaranteed minimum grade requirement of "C" for the semester based on the extra work done by the student regarding race relations. The letter also relates how the students spent time "lounging" in New Garden Hall the following Monday in a respectful and friendly attitude of protest. Hobbs tells Frazier that the occurrence helped to bring attention to the difficulties the students faced and that "on the whole some good has come from the situation." |
| Type | text |
| Original format | correspondence |
| Original dimensions | 8.515x10.895 |
| Original publisher | [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
| Language | en |
| Contributing institution | Friends Historical Collection, Hege Library, Guilford College |
| Source collection | MS528 Robert Frazier Papers |
| Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Additional rights information | IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse. |
| Object ID | GUI_MS528.1298 |
| Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
| Sponsor | LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html |
| OCLC number | 884367804 |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | •n-"?o GUILFORD COLLEGE CHARTERED 1834 FOUNDED 1837 GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA 27410 Office of the President Dear Robert: This is to inform all Trustees of two situations which happened with the black students at Guilford College. On Friday afternoon, March 13, a sizeable delegation of black students came to the Administration Building and asked to speak with several of our administrators, including myself, and several of Guilford's teaching personnel. During the meeting the black students told us of their feeling that they were under special pressures as a minority group at Guilford and that they felt Guilford College had done too little to improve their situation at the college since they came. (They had earlier requested that Guilford make great effort to hire more black professors.) They asked that we redouble our efforts to get black professors. They also asked for a place where the black students could meet and be together. They said that they felt real hostility almost every place where they met on campus, including being denied the privilege of remaining in the dining room after meals. In response, we have found a.place for them in two unneeded rooms of Cox Hall, for we felt that this was a legitimate request, particularly since B.A.S.I.B. is a regularly chartered student organisation. In that few of the black students owned cars, and since the atmosphere around the town of Guilford College was not conducive to their "hitch-hiking11 as other students do, they asked to be able to use college cars when they were available. In that Guilford has a policy which allows the use of college cars to regularly organized campus organizations (at their own expense), we found no difficulty in^granting this request. There were several other minor requests, but the one which the college found itself unable to accept was their request to be guaranteed a minimum grade of nC8? on their college work this semester. Their reasoning behind this request was that they had contributed greatly to plans for improving the atmosphere at Guilford so as to make it conducive for black students to come here; that they had served as resource persons in various courses in which information concerning black people was , needed; and that they had spent a great deal of time conferring among themselves as to how to be a really positive influence en campus. For these reasons, and because it was more difficult for a black to simply |
