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By Michelle Hines, University Relations
UNCG students protest on behalf of campus food service workers in 1968. Just one of the images available through the new Civil Rights Greensboro online database.
Posted 1-25-10
GREENSBORO —UNCG, in conjunction with the 50-year anniversary of the Greensboro Sit-ins, has launched Civil Rights Greensboro, an online portal to information about the people and events that have helped define Greensboro’s history.
The site, found at http://library.uncg.edu/dp/crg/, represents a combined effort between UNCG, Guilford College, Greensboro College and Duke University. It is hosted and maintained by the UNCG University Libraries’ Electronic Resources and Information Technology department.
Civil Rights Greensboro, a searchable digital archive, covers such subjects as desegregation of local schools, the historic February 1960 sit-ins at Woolworth’s, race relations at UNCG and Guilford College, the Black Power movement in Greensboro, and the Greensboro Massacre of 1979. Audio clips of first-person accounts, transcribed oral histories and archival photos are available on the site.
Digitized resources came from the following collections:
• University Archives and Manuscripts, UNCG
• Friends Historical Collection, Guilford College
• Brock Historical Museum, Greensboro College
• Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, Duke University
• Greensboro Historical Museum
A $74,616 NC ECHO Digitization Grant from the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, with money from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, funded the project.