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    • W.C. Informer Number 8

    • W.C. Informer Number 8

    • The eighth issue of W.C. Informer reports on the passage of the Patman Housing Act of 1946, a precursor to the federal urban renewal program that was envisioned as a means of providing low-cost housing but ultimately resulted in the destruction of...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-04-21
    • W.C. Informer Number 11

    • W.C. Informer Number 11

    • The eleventh (and possibly final) issue of W.C. Informer presents a list of suggested summer readings on the themes of national and international affairs. The titles on U.S. issues primarily center on race relations and include The Street by Ann...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-05-11
    • W.C. Informer Number 5

    • W.C. Informer Number 5

    • The fifth issue of W.C. Informer discusses an incident in Columbia, Tennessee, in which a black veteran and a white fought over an insult to the veteran's mother. Afterward, a group of fifty to seventy-five whites stormed the jail and roamed the...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-03-17
    • W.C. Informer Number 1

    • W.C. Informer Number 1

    • The first issue of W.C. Informer focuses on several postwar political issues, and criticizes a recent vote on extending the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) in light of the service of black soldiers during World War II. The FEPC,...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-03
    • W.C. Informer Number 4

    • W.C. Informer Number 4

    • The fourth issue of W.C. Informer discusses of nuclear weapons, federal labor policy (specifically a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would curtail union activities such as "sympathy strikes" wher one union walks out in...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-03-11
    • W.C. Informer Number 9

    • W.C. Informer Number 9

    • The ninth issue of W.C. Informer notes that "infamous preacher of race hatred" Gerald Smith had called a "nationalist congress" for the following month. Smith was well-known for his racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Communist...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-04-28
    • W.C. Informer Number 2

    • W.C. Informer Number 2

    • The second issue of W.C. Informer primarily discusses economic and political trends in in North Carolina, including voter registration and participation. Statistics are presented on poverty, living conditions (lack of running water, infant...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-03
    • W.C. Informer Number 7

    • W.C. Informer Number 7

    • The seventh issue of W.C. Informer reports on the need for new housing units in the postwar years. Government housing policy was a major part of the federal urban renewal programs of the 1940s - 1970s, which ultimately displaced many predominantly...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-04-14
    • W.C. Informer Number 6

    • W.C. Informer Number 6

    • The sixth issue of W.C. Informer is primarily a discussion of pending legislation concerning the railroad industry and an alleged conspiracy to thwart competition and a ":rate blockade" to keep southern manufacturers from competing in...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-04-07
    • W.C. Informer Number 10

    • W.C. Informer Number 10

    • The tenth issue of W.C. Informer encourages students to assist in voter registration drives and to vote themselves when they become eligible. Voter registration drives were a major part of the early civil rights movement.<br><br>W.C....

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-05-06
    • W.C. Informer Number 3

    • W.C. Informer Number 3

    • The third issue of W.C. Informer criticizes policies of the Truman administration, particularly the nomination of Edwin Pauley as Undersecretary of the Navy, which resulted in the protest resignation of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes....

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1946-03
    • Education in action

    • Education in action

    • These two editorials, published in the November 7, 1967, Greensboro Daily News, discuss the controversial Black Power Forum held November 1-3, 1967, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). One is a reprint of an editorial...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1967-11-07
    • Student strike - a student view

    • Student strike - a student view

    • This article from the fall 1979 University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Alumni News by former UNCG Student Government president Randi Bryant Strutton recounts her memories of the 1969 cafeteria workers' strike at UNCG. Strutton discusses...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1979
    • If I had it to do over again, I'd do it without hesitation

    • If I had it to do over again, I'd do it without hesitation

    • This article from the Fall 1991 Bulletin by JoAnne Smart Drane (nee Elizabeth Jo Ann Smart) discusses her experiences as one of the first two black students admitted to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), then known as the...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1991-09
    • Student strike - a chancellor reflects

    • Student strike - a chancellor reflects

    • This article from the Fall, 1979, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Alumni News contains reminiscences by James Sharbrough Fergsuon, former chancellor of UNCG, about the cafeteria workers' strike of 1969. Ferguson discusses the...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1979
    • The way it was...

    • The way it was...

    • This article from the Spring 1980 UNCG Alumni News by JoAnne Smart Drane (nee Elizabeth Jo Ann Smart) discusses her experiences as one of the first two black students admitted to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), then known as...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1980-04
    • Six students speak on being black

    • Six students speak on being black

    • This article from the Summer 1970 issue of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's (UNCG) Alumni News profiles five black UNCG graduates and one current student about their experience at the university which had, at the time, a black...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1970
    • News release on Faculty Council statement of desegregation

    • News release on Faculty Council statement of desegregation

    • This December 15, 1955, press release from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC) News Bureau discusses a statement on desegregation issued by the WCUNC Faculty Council. The statement, presented by Warren Ashby, affirmed...

    • University Archives Subject Files

    • 1955-12-15

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