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2 Negro students will enter WC in September
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This uncredited August 17, 1956, article from the Greensboro Daily News reports that two black students had been admitted for the fall semester at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC). Bettye Ann David Tillman and Elizabeth Jo Ann Smart were the first two black students admitted to the college, and both were high achievers in their high schools.
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A review of the development of graduate and professional education for Negroes
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This eighteen-page memorandum from W.D. Carmichael, Jr., who served as acting president of the University of North Carolina (UNC) until 1950 to "President Gray" (possibly Gordon Gray, who served as president of the system beginning in 1950) is an assessment of educational opportunities for black students within the UNC system. The memo cites relevant case law about what level of provision was required and details activities and partnerships aimed at compliance. The recommendation was for establishment of more graduate programs at North Carolina College at Durham, the system's black campus and includes a tentative draft for an agreement between UNC and the North Carolina College. Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now UNCG) was a part of the UNC system.
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Another Negro to enter WC
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This uncredited article published in either the Greensboro Daily News or the Greensboro Record on September 7, 1957, reports that a third black student would be entering the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC) for the fall term, the second year of desegregation at WCUNC. The article also notes that the two black students admitted in 1956 had single rooms in upper class dorms.
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Ban against segregation applicable to colleges, Supreme Court rules/Order of court is final result
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These two articles, published March 6, 1956, in the Greensboro Daily News report on the Supreme Court ruling extending the scope of Brown vs. Board of Education on desegregation to support tax-supported universities and colleges as well. An uncredited Associated Press article states that the court ruled that three black applicants must be admitted to the University of North Carolina without regard to race. A companion article by David E. Green of the Daily News notes that the students had ultimately been admitted prior to the ruling, but that the university still voted to appeal a lower-court ruling. This decision set the stage for the admission of black students to the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in the fall of 1956.
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Black power -forum agenda
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This is the agenda for the controversial Black Power Forum held at the University of North Carolina at Greenbooro November 1-3, 1967. The agenda contains a listing of all discussion topics, panelists, and lecturers, including sociologist Nathan Hare, activist and UNC lecturer Howard Fuller, and professor James Brewer. Topics listed are: "Black Power Past and Present", "The Ghetto", and "Black Power and the Self-Image of the Negro".
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Black power legislation
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This is a pamphlet distributed at the controversial Black Power Forum held November 1-3, 1967 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) explaining some of the principles behind the Black Power movement. The pamphlet discusses Black Power as a means of allowing black people to look out for their own needs in the face of the racist system which has been imposed upon them. There is also discussion of the "emasculation and loss of digntity" of American black men, and the idea that Black Power will restore this.
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Calm acceptance of Negroes seen at college
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This uncredited August 16, 1956, article from the Greensboro Record reports that the Student Government Association of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC) is confident that students "will accept calmly" the admission of two black students.
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Education in action
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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 published earlier in the Raleigh News & Obersver, stating that UNCG had permitted itself to be "used" by activists with an agenda. The other is a Daily News editorial refuting the position expressed in the News & Observer editorial and stating that UNCG was right not to ban speakers at the forum.
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Equality of admissions favored in 24-0 vote
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This December 8, 1955, article by Martha Jester of the Greensboro Record, reports that the Student Legislature of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC) passed a resolution the night before "favoring equality of admissions policies and use of facilities to all students, regardless of race." The resolution was to be sent to the WCUNC administration and trustees as well as to university faculty and the North Carolina General Assembly.
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Ferguson Reply: Right to Conduct Forum Defended
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This uncredited article from the November 16, 1967, Greensboro Daily News, reports on comments by University of North Carolina at Greensboro Chancellor James Sharbrough Fergsuon following the controversial Black Power Forum held November 1-3, 1967, at UNCG. Ferguson, responding to criticism of the event, defended the decision to allow the forum on the grounds of its educational and noted that the movement "cannot be wished away simply because it is controversial." Ferguson's comments were widely reported, and he and William Friday, president of the university system, received numerous letters following the statement
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Film sparks protest at UNC-G
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This November 13, 1980, article by Lindsey Gruson of the Greensboro Daily News, reports on the controversy surrounding a screening of the movie "The Birth of a Nation" as part of a history class at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Protesters stated the the movie would inflame racial tensions in Greensboro in light of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, while history professor Alan Trelease said the film was an important reflection of racial attitudes at the turn of the century.
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Five Negroes are enrolled at WC
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This uncredited article published in either the Greensboro Daily News or the Greensboro Record on September 7, 1957, reports that five black students are enrolled at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC) for the fall term, the second year of desegregation at WCUNC.
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Gay Academic Union at UNCG
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Material related to the establishment of a Gay Academic Union at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG).
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Graham upholds students
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This uncredited article from the December 9, 1955 Greensboro Record reports that Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC) Chancellor Edward K. Graham supported the right of the WCUNC Student Legislature to pass its recent resolution in favor of desegregating university facilities, as well as the right to consider other controversial issues.
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Help all W.C. students to patronize the Cinema Theatre, Town & College, and Apple House restaurants
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This is a flyer urging students at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC) to boycott three segregated businesses on Tate Street adjacent to the campus. Two restaurants, the Apple House (a/k/a Do-nut Dinette) and the Town and College, and one theatre, the Cinema, are targeted in the flyer, which also notes that there will be pickets at the Cinema and the Town and College between May 16 and May 22, 1963.
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