Click here to enlarge image. UNCG professor, Anne Parsons in partnership with community organizations and her History/Museum Studies graduate students created the exhibition States of Incarceration to the Int’l Civil Rights Center and Museum. The students curated a section of the exhibition and are installing the exhibit and organizing the … Continued
Friday, Oct. 14, 3:30-5:15 p.m. Location: UNCG Auditorium (formerly Aycock Auditorium) After much study and debate, UNCG recently removed Governor Aycock’s name from the campus auditorium, uncomfortable with his leadership in the twentieth-century white supremacy movement. This session, held in conjunction with the Historical Society of North Carolina, continues the … Continued
Starting this week, African American History artifacts from University Libraries at UNC Greensboro can be viewed online by people around the world due to a new partnership between the Google Cultural Institute and the University Libraries. Visitors of the Google Cultural Institute site may also view an exhibit regarding African … Continued
It’s one thing to read about the Holocaust and Nazi Germany in books or see black and white pictures. It’s another to hear the startling, personal memories of a Jewish person who was there and survived. On Kristallnacht, the nationwide German pogrom in November 1938 that is often identified as … Continued
PERFORMANCE ARTIST Sheryl Oring spent a month in Berlin’s Mitte Art professor Sheryl Oring sits at a desk outside the Berlin Wall Memorial, clacking away at a typewriter like a secretary, with thick-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose. A man stands before her giving a testimony that … Continued