Mysteries of City Hall Remain Unsolved
Two photographs have been identified as outbuildings that could have served as housing for the enslaved workers of one of Guilford County’s largest enslavers, James Turner Morehead. Today, that location…
Two photographs have been identified as outbuildings that could have served as housing for the enslaved workers of one of Guilford County’s largest enslavers, James Turner Morehead. Today, that location…
Delphina Street was an early community of Black landowners that was centered around St. Paul’s A. M. E. Zion Church in today’s Westerwood neighborhood. It was established in the early…
From the perspective of those living in the twenty-first century, a community reinvestment plan that entails the destruction of the focus neighborhood seems to be a contradiction in terms. How…
In Greensboro and Guilford County during the nineteenth century, the Mitchell and Dean families contributed themes of influence and agency as free people of color within the context of legalized…
The East White Oak School was constructed by the Cone family around 1916 to serve grades 1-5 for children of African American mill workers. It has been on the National…
Guilford County is unusual in North Carolina, and perhaps the American South for having a treasure trove of Black historic sites that include the acclaimed International Civil Rights Museum and…
The landmark house on Gorrell Street is most notable today as the Magnolia House Motel, a Green Book-era accommodation with deep roots in Greensboro’s Black community. Beyond its legendary hospitality,…
If you haven’t visited Southside and South Elm Street – south of the railroad tracks – in a few years, my how things have changed. Once the redheaded stepchild of…
The East White Oak School was constructed by the Cone company in 1916 to serve grades 1-5 for children of African American workers who resided in the surrounding community as…
Future-Perfect-in-Past-Tense grammatical terms were once the topic of discussion in the classrooms of Warnersville’s J. C. Price Elementary School, but today, the term describes a new direction planned by residents…
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