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African American Civil Rights Historical Study Community Meeting
Last year, the City of Greensboro received a second National Park Service African American Civil Rights grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior. The $75,000 grant will be used to document stories and places related to Greensboro’s participation in the Civil Rights Movement. Residents can learn about the project and how to participate at a community meeting held from 6-8 pm on Tuesday, September 23, in the sanctuary of Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 901 E. Friendly Ave.
The project is the fourth in a series of Greensboro-managed African American history projects and aims to contextualize the area’s role in the national movement. With the help of architectural and oral historians, the City will craft a comprehensive document for sites associated with the Civil Rights Movement. The current objective is to build on earlier projects and venture beyond downtown and southeast Greensboro areas to collect additional oral histories and primary documents related to African American heritage. The project also includes preparing nominations for two historically significant sites, Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and Gillespie Golf Course, to the National Register of Historic Places. At the upcoming community meeting, City staff and collaborating historians will explain the project's scope and how residents may get involved.
Previous studies conducted by the City boast accomplishments such as updating the Downtown Greensboro National Register Historic District to include mid-twentieth century architecture and Civil Rights history, surveying historic buildings in east and southeast Greensboro, and listing South Benbow Road Historic District in the National Register of Historic Places.
Oral histories collected during projects will be available online in the future at the State Archives of North Carolina, while documents and memorabilia scans will be housed on the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s online library archive, Digital Greensboro.
