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50th Anniversary of Integration Events

Ongoing Events & Programming

  • Guilford Integration, 1962 Before and After: An Oral History
  • Cash Crop Exhibit: Hege Library
  • Look Back At It: A Student Documentary Project
  • Book Club: Manchild and the Promised Land

Fall Semester 2012

September

  • September 25 – Official Kick Off Event from 4pm-6pm, Founders Hall Patio, Rain Location Boren Lounge
  • September 27 – Black Alumni Panel: Black, Bold, & Talented from 6pm-8pm, Dana Auditorium
  • September 27 -The Element from 7:30-9pm, Community Center
  • September 28 – Welcome Back Mixer from 6pm-8pm, Alumni House
  • September 29 – Alumni & Student Breakfast from 9:30am-10:30am, Fresh Manna – Jamestown, N.C.
  • September 29 – Open Forum: Black Alumni at Guilford from 11:30am-12:30pm, Community Center
  • September 29 – BASIB, AACS, BUS Reunion Tailgate, Cookout, & Kickball from 3pm-7pm, Football Field Parking Lot

October

  • October 3 – Underground Railroad Tour from 1pm-3pm, Begins at steps of Hege Library
  • October 3 – Scholars dine with James McCorkle from 6pm-8pm at the Alumni House
  • October 8 – Oppose Integration – Examining Native American Survival from 7pm-9pm in King Hall Room 127
  • October 28 – Listening Project: Journeys to Justice and Civil Rights in N.C. from 4pm-6pm in the Carnegie Room at Hege Library

November

  • November 1 – Brown Bag – Is Integration Enough?: Reconciling Truth from 7pm-9pm in the Milner Hall Lounge
  • November 6 – Out to the Polls, Carpool to and from the polls, meeting behind Founders Hall

December

  • December 4 – Re-visiting the Conflict – Reading of the Board of Trustees from 5:pm-6:30pm in King Hall Room 127

Spring Semester 2013

Ongoing Events and Programming

  • Guilford Integration, 1962 Before and After: An Oral History

January

  • January 30 – MLK All Campus Program from 1pm-3pm in Dana Auditorium

February

  • February 1 – Early Black Alum ’66-’77 Portraits & Profiles Exhibit Opening Reception from 5pm-7pm in King Hall Room 126
  • February 4-8 – History of Student Protest & Policy, Events TBA
  • February 6 – Get on the BUS: African American Tour of Greensboro & Tour of International Civil Rights Museum 12:45pm-4:00pm, Meeting behind Founders
  • February 15-17 – Understanding Racism: Building Community & Trust Workshop
  • February 21 – Celebrations & Misconceptions of Blackness, from 3:30pm-5:30pm in King Hall Room 127

March

  • March 5 – Africana Brown Bag Luncheon: Students, What Would You Have Done? Reflections on the Civil Rights Movement- Elena Conley & Wesley Morris from Beloved Community Center from 12pm-2pm in the Dining Hall

April

  • April 17 – A Lyrical Blast Into the Past: The Music that Moved Black Culture- Africana Brown Bag Discussion from 3:30pm-5:30pm in King Hall Room 127

May

  • Journeys in Blackness Banquet – Scholarship Fundraiser – “Honoring the Firsts” – Date, Location & Time TBA
  • May 8 – The Next 50 Years – Evaluating and Reconciling from 3pm-5pm in the Joseph M. Bryan, Jr. Auditorium

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